I first heard of Katharine O'Brien a few weeks ago at the Charles Simic reading at USM, which was made possible by a gift from O'Brien's estate to the University. Part of the endowment was to make a lecture on poetry open to the public each year.
So, I looked her up and could not find much, so what to do? What any smart human would do: contact a librarian! And behold and lo, Cathleen Miller at the Maine Women Writers Collection found a file that says where O'Brien is buried. It's Amesbury, MA. Right near John Whittier. She might be number 318 on my journey.
Here is a shot of her poem "Einstein and the ice-cream cone", which was posted on the Maine Women Writers Collection Blog in 2011:
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