Laura Crafton Gilpin

Place: New York

Born: 1950

Death: 2007

Biography:

Laura Crafton Gilpin was an American poet, nurse, and advocate for hospital reform. She was born on October 10, 1950, in New York, and died on February 15, 2007, in Fairhope, Alabama. Gilpin is known for her plain, unselfconscious, and elegant poetry, which is marked by tentative endings and a self-effacing style. She was awarded the Walt Whitman Award by the Academy of American Poets in 1976 for her book of poems titled 'The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe'. Gilpin was also a registered nurse and a founding member of Planetree, an organization dedicated to humanizing patient care in hospitals.