Grace Fallow Norton

Grace Fallow Norton (29 October 1876 – 1962) was an American poet. Though her work is obscure today, in the early twentieth century it was praised by poets like Robert Frost and Amy Lowell.

She settled in New York City in 1899. Starting around 1910, her poetry began to appear in leading publications like The Atlantic Monthly, The Century Magazine, Scribner’s Magazine, Harper’s Monthly, McClure’s, and Poetry, as well as her friend Emma Goldman's anarchist publication, Mother Earth. In 1912 she published her first collection, Little Gray Songs from St. Joseph’s, about a girl dying in a convent. It was praised by the New York Times as “a revelation of what genius can do with the ordinary and every-day things of life.” I Give Thanks Make No Vows