Edith Brown Mirick attended Columbian College, the fore-runner to George Washington University, and published her poems in prominent journals such as Poetry, Voices, Hound & Horn, and Palms. She published three books of poems: 5 Poets (1929, a chapbook-sized selection of poems, presented along with four others), Flower and Weed (1930), and These Twinkling Acres (1935). She also edited two anthologies: Tanka and Hokku, the first known anthology of tanka written in English (1931), and District of Columbia Poets: An Anthology of 32 Contemporaries (1932). Mirick is buried along with her husband, Lieut. Carlos B. Mirick, at Arlington National Cemetery.
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3314 Newark St. NW, Washington, DC
1638 R Street NW, Washington, DC
Edith Brown Mirick
3314 Newark St NW, Washington, DC, USA
Located in Cleveland Park neighborhood, Northwest - East of Rock Creek
Edith Brown Mirick
1638 R Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Located in Dupont Circle neighborhood, Northwest - East of Rock Creek