Vivian Yeiser Laramore

She published her first poems in this magazine, including "Four American Poets" and "The Marshes of the Saint John's.

"[1] In April 1912, Vivian Yeiser married Robert Eugene Laramore, a traveling salesman.

[4] After moving to Miami in 1920, Laramore published over 50 poems in 13 magazines from 1920–1923, including the Ladies' Home Journal, Woman's World and Contemporary Verse.

[1] She had a strong collaboration with her neighbor Mana-Zucca, starting when the composer set Laramore's poem "My Florida" to music.

[1] In 1930, she began holding weekly meetings at her home, called the Laramore Poetry Group.

[5] After her appointment to Poet Laureate, she began publishing in the Miami Daily News every Sunday.

[1] After the death of her husband Robert Laramore in 1936, Vivian was invited by Rollins College Vice-President Grover to teach a poetry class in Blowing Rock, North Carolina.

She named Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sara Teasdale, Robert Frost, and Robinson Jeffers as poets she liked to read.

And now I throw the key away To seek another room, And furnish it with hope and smiles, And every springtime bloom.