To work "lovingly": Marianne Moore at Bryn Mawr, 1905-1909 -- Serpents in paradise: Marianne Moore and "marriage" -- Elizabeth Bishop's "queer birds": Vassar, Con Spirito, and the romance of female community -- Con Spirito, improvisation, and the poetry of the 1930s -- Sylvia Plath's brave new world at Smith, 1950-1955 -- "Order[ing] a box of maniacs": Questions of power in the bee poems.
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