“American Poet” Lucia Trent Hand Written Letter on Contemporary Verse Letterhead. (December 19, 1897 – January 27, 1977) was an. In the 1930s some considered her to be the best female poetry reader of the time. Original Penny’s Poetry Pages articles. Trent was born in Richmond. Trent and Cheney (also a poet) edited. For some years Trent was the book editor of. An activist like her husband, Trent published many works intended to raise the consciousness of the middle and working classes, including. Children of Fire and Shadow. The couple’s son, Trent Cheney (who was writing and reciting his own poetry at 12), was called both a child prodigy and the greatest child poet of today. After Ralph Cheyney died, Lucia Trent married Ernest Glass, and lived with him in Austin. She was bedridden for the last decade of her life after a stroke. She is buried with Cheyney in Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Texas. “To John Steinbeck” was published in Davis’s. Anthology of Newspaper Verse for 1939: 21st annual edition. (New York: Henry Harrison, 1940). Her work was included in the. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Autographs\Historical”. The seller is “historicsellsmemorabilia” and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Estonia, Australia, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Slovenia, Japan, China, Sweden, Korea, South, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa, Thailand, Belgium, France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Italy, Germany, Austria, Bahamas, Israel, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, Switzerland, Norway, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, Croatia, Republic of, Malaysia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad and Tobago, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Montserrat, Turks and Caicos Islands, Barbados, Bangladesh, Bermuda, Brunei Darussalam, Bolivia, Ecuador, Egypt, French Guiana, Guernsey, Gibraltar, Guadeloupe, Iceland, Jersey, Jordan, Cambodia, Cayman Islands, Liechtenstein, Sri Lanka, Luxembourg, Monaco, Macau, Martinique, Maldives, Nicaragua, Oman, Peru, Pakistan, Paraguay, Reunion, Vietnam, Uruguay.