Triem, Eve, 1902-1992

Eve Triem was born in New York City on November 2, 1902. Triem grew up in San Francisco and attended the University of California at Berkeley. She married Paul Ellsworth Triem, a writer, in 1924 and they moved to Dubuque, Iowa in 1936. They moved to San Francisco in 1956, where they resided until moving to Seattle in 1960. They had two children, Yvonne and Peter. Paul Triem died in 1976.

Eve Triem began writing poetry in earnest in 1936. While in Dubuque, Triem studied Greek classics at the Presbyterian Seminary at the University of Dubuque, and began to translate Greek poems. Some of her translations were published as Heliodora, Translations from the Greek anthology, Olivant Press, 1967.

Triem was a friend of e.e. cummings, lectured about his poetry and wrote a pamphlet about him, E.E. Cummings, American Writers series, Minnesota Press, 1969.

Many of Triem's poems were written for her husband of 51 years. Dark To Glow is a collection of such poems, which she wrote after his death. She often gave him a decorated copy of a poem as a gift on the occasion of anniversaries, holidays, or his birthday. They were usually first drafts which were later revised and published under different titles.

Triem's work appeared in many literary periodicals and anthologies, and she gave many readings and lectures. In 1984, she won a Western States Book award for lifetime achievement. Her published collections of poems are:

Eve Triem died in 1992.

From the guide to the Eve Triem papers, 1921-1999, 1943-1984, (University of Washington Libraries Special Collections)