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Clara Frances McKee Beede
A little-known American poet whose work lingers on nature, memory, faith, and everyday feeling. Her poems in Some Broken Twigs and Clear Crystals have found new readers through public-domain and audiobook editions.
2 Audiobooks
Some Broken Twigs
by Clara Frances McKee Beede
Clear Crystals
by Clara Frances McKee Beede
About the author
Clara Frances McKee Beede was an American poet, listed by LibriVox as Clara Frances Beede (born McKee), who lived from 1875 to 1965. Genealogy records identify her as Clara Francis McKee, born on October 17, 1875, in Mitchell, Kansas, and married to Joshua William Beede.
Her surviving books show a writer drawn to reflection and emotion. Some Broken Twigs gathers poems about the natural world, passing time, and human experience, while Clear Crystals is a collection of poems dedicated to soldiers and shaped by wartime feeling.
Beede is not a heavily documented literary figure today, which gives her work a quiet kind of discovery value. What remains most vivid is the poetry itself: gentle, sincere, and closely observant, with a voice that turns ordinary scenes and private feelings into something memorable.