May 23, 1918 [New York City, New York] – January 7, 2003 [New York City, New York]
Replansky was born in the Bronx. Her first book, Ring Song, containing poems written from 1936 to 1952, was published by Scribner’s in 1952 and was nominated for the National Book Award. She moved to Los Angeles for the first time in 1946 to be a translator for Bertolt Brecht; she arrived again in 1952, living in Venice and spent time with the leftist poets associated with Coastlines including Thomas McGrath, Don Gordon and Bert Meyers. Though she was never called before HUAC, her passport was revoked in 1951, probably due to her association with Brecht. She moved to San Francisco in 1959, returning to New York in 1964. Her second book, Twenty-One Poems, Old and New, didn’t appear until 1988. Her Collected Poems won the Poetry Society of America’s 2013 William Carlos Williams Award and was a finalist for the 2014 Poets’ Prize.
