Elizabeth Sargent

NEW YORK CITY - Elizabeth Sargent (E.N. SarCarn10th. gent), Poet and last artist tenant to live above egie Hall, passed away peacefully in her sleep on April She was 96.

Among Ms. Sargent’s published works were The African Boy (1963, Macmil- lan & 1986, A.A.L.), Love Poems of Elizabeth SarExerCosmoShe gent (1966, Signet & 1972, Herder and Herder), The Magic Book of Love cises (1970, Bantam), and A Woman in Love (1977, Avon). Her poems appeared in The New Yorker, politan, Harper’s, Esquire, and The Atlantic Monthly, among several others. was twice a resident artist at Yaddo and she read her works at both The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and The Poetry CenBercounby tre at the 92nd Street Y in NYC. In 1966 she was the State of New Jersey’s Poet of the Year. Born Betty nadine Robinson on May 16th,1920 in West Virginia or Pennsylvania coal try, she was adopted a Quaker family and raised in Shaker Heights, Ohio. After attending Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Ms. Sargent lived in New York, Califorun-removed nia, Texas and New Jersey, before settling into Studio 901 above Carnegie Hall in 1964. She resided there til 2010, when the Carnegie Hall Corporation it’s tenants and demolished it’s historic studios.

She was predeceased by her husband Alan Gregory Roberts in 1976 and her son Jared Alan Roberts in 1992. She is survived by a daughter, Serena Sorensen.

For many decades, beth summered in SaraMotoga Springs, renting room 39 at the Grand Union tel, where she wrote poetry, rested, and felt rejuvenated by the springs. Friends are invited to attend a graveat side service at Greenridge Cemetery on Saturday, April 29th 1:30pm.

A procession will begin from the cemetery office at 1:25pm.

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