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ETHEL ROMIG FULLER
Mrs. Ethel Romig Fuller was born in Big Rapids, Michigan, but has lived in Portland since 1906. She was educated in the Michigan State Normal School and in the Portland Extension Center of the State System of Higher Education. Her facility and naturalness with metrical forms would indicate the traditional “lisping in numbers”, but she has been seriously writing verse for only about a dozen years. During that period she has become one of the most widely quoted of contemporary American poets. She has preeminently the gift of glorifying the common things of life. She has contributed verse to a large number of publications in America and England and is the author of two books of poems: White Peaks and Green, 1928; and Kitchen Sonnets (and Lyrics of Domesticity), 1931. She is poetry editor of the Oregonian, has written many prose articles, and is a frequent lecturer on literary topics to clubs and study groups and over the radio. She is the wife of Charles E. Fuller, a Portland insurance man.
Swamp Bedtime
From Kitchen Sonnets, 1931
At the dusky end of a new spring day?
Over and over this plaintive cheep,
Can't go to sleep! Can't go to sleep!
The daddy bullfrogs in their green, green coats?
Spank 'em! Spank 'em! The old frogs say
At the dusky end of a new spring day.
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FRANCES GILL
Frances Gill was born in Portland in 1884 of a prominent pioneer Oregon family and, with the exception of the years away for college, has always made Portland her home. She received her education in the old Portland High School and the University of California, where she was graduated in 1910. Later she studied in creative writing courses with Mrs. Mable Holmes Parsons in the Portland Center of the State System of Higher Education. For 16 years she has been instructor of English in Lincoln High School, Portland, and
