Sappho of Greenwich Village

Greg Kindall <[email protected]>
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If someone said 'Sappho of Greenwich Village' I'd probably think they were referring to Edna St Vincent Millay. Apparently, however, there was an actual Sappho of Greenwich Village, born Juanyta Clivette, who had claimed from the time she was six years old to be a reincarnation of the Greek poet.
Here's a link to a full-page spread in the Oregon Daily Journal from 19 September 1920, just days before Juanyta/Sappho's 13th birthday. 
   https://www.newspapers.com/image/78432681/

There were similar spreads in papers around the country (this is the clearest scan I've found). 

I'm still a bit astonished since learning this morning that she was my grandmother's cousin (and close contemporary).
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