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Gloria Oden
Gloria Catherine Oden (October 30, 1923 – December 16, 2011) was an American poet, editor and retired professor of English. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for ''Resurrections'', a collection of poems that responded to the unsolved murder of her mother and sister in their home in Washington, D.C.〔Galbus, Julia. (“Smoke in a House on Fire: A Profile of Gloria Oden.” ) ''Beltway Poetry Quarterly''. 7.4 (2006). Web. 19 Oct. 2011.〕
==Early life and education==
Gloria Oden was born in Yonkers, New York, on October 30, 1923. As the youngest daughter of six born to an African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church minister and a college-educated mother, Oden was instilled early on with a respect for education and intellect – she, along with her siblings were required to memorize and recite poetry. Additionally, her early religious training with Protestant rituals and hymns introduced her at a young age to the structures and rhymes of poetry,〔Doreski, C.K. "Gloria Oden 'Looks' at Elizabeth Bishop." Harvard Review 16 (1999): 36.〕 causing her professor (Carroll L. Miller) to describe her as a "Black Puritan" and a critical little "Blue Stocking". Oden’s childhood was also influenced by estrangement from her siblings and parents due to an eight-year gap in age from her next closest sibling.〔 Of this childhood she describes, “My life from my beginning was a restricted one. I wasn’t raised on the street, in the neighborhood, but within a family where, as the youngest, I was remote in years from my sisters in brothers who united as one. My father took seriously his role in those harsh years, his role as a leader in the community and having his children as examples. I resented it growing up but the value of it – self discipline, focus – I can appreciate as fair trade off.”〔Oden. Gloria. (“Open letter.” ) Inertia Magazine. January 2008. Web. 20 Oct. 2011.〕 At the same time Oden expressed a close attachment to her father’s congregation.〔Langston Hughes Papers. James Weldon Johnson Collection in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.〕 It is from this congregation, which she describes as being composed of every economic and physical spectrum from the “chalk-faced, blond-haired, blue-eyed black boy” to the “serpent-eyed, ebony-hued girl,” that she learned to disregard color.〔
Oden attended integrated schools, graduating from New Rochelle High School in 1939, largely unaware of issues of racial discrimination occurring across the country. Of this childhood, she recalls: “From elementary school on through high school in highly integrated schools, there were few to no other black children in either the classes I took. Why that was is another story but not anything I gave any thought to while going to school. Because I never went to other children's home to play (and they never came to mine).” She attended Howard University, “the family university”, for both her undergraduate and law school education, receiving her BA in 1944 and her JD in 1948. Howard University was a significant change given a childhood largely separated from her peers. “If you ever get a chance to read RESURRECTIONS there is a poem in there about my mother taking me to Howard dressed in a pink dotted-Swiss dress with a big bow on the back, a large bow on my hair and wearing Mary–Janes. No lie,” she writes.〔
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