Discipline: Literature – poetry

Herbert Krohn

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Brookline, MA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1970, 1973, 1975

Herbert Krohn is a writer and poet who specializes in war poetry. He was born in New York and raised in New Jersey. His books include To Master Pain at the Crossroads, and the anthologies Primary Care and More Poems by Physicians. He has been published in Boston Phoenix, Chelsea, Evergreen Review, Partisan Review, the Nation, The New Yorkers, and The Village Voice. He is trilingual.

Studios

Sprague-Smith

Herbert Krohn worked in the Sprague-Smith studio.

In January of 1976, the original Sprague-Smith Studio — built in 1915–1916 and funded by music students of Mrs. Charles Sprague-Smith of the Veltin School — was destroyed by fire. Redesigned by William Gnade, Sr., a Peterborough builder, the fieldstone structure was rebuilt the same year from the foundation up, reusing the original fieldstone. A few…

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