Ezra Pound
1885–1972 · Modernist poet confined at St. Elizabeths Hospital
The influential and controversial modernist poet spent twelve years confined at St. Elizabeths Hospital, the federal psychiatric institution on the plateau above Anacostia. Arrested for treason over wartime broadcasts for Fascist Italy and found unfit for trial, he was held from 1946 until his release in 1958, during which the hospital became an unlikely literary salon. (His tie is institutional confinement at St. Elizabeths, not residency in the historic Anacostia core.)
Connection to Anacostia: Confined 1946–1958 at St. Elizabeths Hospital, on the heights above Anacostia.