Poems by First Ladies: The First-Ever Anthology includes a humorous limerick poem by Edith Wilson. After I learned that the Edith Bolling Galt Wilson Papers contain additional poems, I pilgrimaged to the Library of Congress’s Manuscript Division. I found no shortage of poems, but despite my sleuthing, I could not confidently conclude that Edith authored any of them.…
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January 2026
Poems by Presidents Fillmore, Cleveland, and Clinton
Posted on January 1, 2026Poems by Presidents features selections by eleven presidents and discusses verse by four others. While researching the sequel, Poems by First Ladies, I discovered poems by three more presidents: Millard Fillmore, Grover Cleveland, and William J. Clinton. This brings the total number of presidential poets to eighteen! Millard Fillmore According to Robert J. Scarry’s Millard Fillmore, the Hallmark Company acquired a valentine from 1850 at an antique store in 1956. The valentine is in Millard Fillmore’s handwriting and…