| Timeline |
| 1887 |
Born near St. Louis, Missouri, on 15 November 15 |
| 1896 |
Attends Metzger Institute, Carlisle |
| 1905 |
Enters Bryn Mawr College |
| 1909 |
Receives B.A. from Bryn Mawr College |
| 1911 |
Employed as a school teacher at the Carlisle Indian School until 1915 |
| 1918 |
Moves with mother to New York City |
| 1921 |
Becomes an assistant at the New York Public Library |
| 1921 |
First book, Poems, published without her knowledge |
| 1924 |
Observations published |
| 1925 |
Serves as acting editor of the Dial until 1929 |
| 1932 |
Wins Helen Haire Levinson Prize for Poetry |
| 1936 |
The Pangolin and other verse published |
| 1940 |
Shelley Memorial Award |
| 1941 |
What Are Years? published |
| 1944 |
Nevertheless published |
| 1945 |
Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1946 |
Joint grant from American Academy of Arts and Letters and National Institute of Arts and Letters |
| 1947 |
Elected to National Institute of Arts and Letters |
| 1951 |
Collected Poems published |
| 1953 |
Collected Poems receives Pulitzer Prize for poetry, National Book Award, and Bollingen Prize |
| 1953 |
Receives the M. Carey Thomas Award and National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal |
| 1972 |
Dies in New York City |
