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Julia Kooken

  • “I want to live to be / An outrageous old woman / Who is never accused of being / An old lady.”

    • Julia Kooken,
    • "Outrageous Old Woman," in Jeanne Tetrault and Sherry Thomas, eds., Country Women ()

  • “I want to get leaner and meaner / Sharp edged / Color of the ground / Till I discorporate / From sheer joy.”

    • Julia Kooken,
    • "Outrageous Old Woman," in Jeanne Tetrault and Sherry Thomas, eds., Country Women ()

Julia Kooken, U.S. poet

(1949)

Full name: Julia Rae Kooken.