used to the notion that lyrical poetry was over for the present…And then came this beautiful collection…’Praise to the end!’” In 1973 she retired from teaching to write full time, moving to Glen Arm, Maryland, where she also became an environmental activist, helping to establish preservation ordinances for the Long Green Valley; this devotion to and deep acquaintance with the natural world was echoed in her poetry, as was her resistance to the land's desecration by developers. During those years she published three more books, including Moving in Memory (1987), for which she received the inaugural Poets’ Prize, an annual award given by a panel of leading American poets. In that same year, personal connections and Vermont's commitment to environmental activism drew her (with her perennial pair of terriers) back to North Bennington, where she settled permanently. During her years there, though she read at The Library of Congress and San Francisco State University, she made relatively few public appearances; she had, as well, a principled aversion to self-promotion, “she did not bend to literary fashion…her poetry does not fit comfortably—or at all—among the “schools” that squared off against each other…” (Meg Schoerke, Mezzo Cammin, 2005)––all of which kept her work from being better known. Nevertheless, she was reviewed and admired by many of her peers, received the Percy Bysshe Shelley Memorial Award of The Poetry Society of America for the body of her work in 1980, a second National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in 1982. She was regularly published in leading journals: Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review, The American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, The Southern Poetry Review and The American Scholar. Her poems appeared in various anthologies, including Poesia Americana del dopoguerra, Ed. Rizzardi, Schwarz (Milan, 1958); Borestone Mountain Best Poems of 1964, Pacific Books (1965); The Hollins Poets, ed. Louis Rubin, Virginia (1967); Hero's Way, Ed. John A. Allen, Prentice-Hall (1971); The Women Poets in English, ed. Ann Stanford, McGraw-Hill (1972); No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women, eds. Florence Howe and Ellen Bass, Doubleday (1973); I Sing the Song of Myself, ed. David Kerdia, Morrow (1978); Contemporary Southern Poetry: An Anthology, eds., Guy Owen, Mary C. Williams, Louisiana State University Press (1979); and Don’t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern Poetry Review, ed. James Smith, University of Arkansas Press (2009). On May 22, 2005, she died at her Bennington home from heart disease