Rebecca JessupBecause she was first last and always a poet her biography can begin in her words, "I was born on Mount Olympus."Because she was a spiritually inspired person we can continue her bio with the true story that when as a young teenager she first looked p the hill to see the Parthenon she had an embodied enlightenment experience.We know that she was also as a Phi Beta Kappa student of the Classics and taught Latin for most of the second half of her life.Because she was by nature a fervent and spiritual universalist she joined what she later came to see as a false religion, the Church of Scientology, in order to save the world, and especially the world of her origins, the elite educated East Coast clan she was born into. Rebecca is listed in the New York City Social Registry.And because she loved poetry even at the age of 12 she cried and cried while reading first editions of her grandmother's volumes of Edna St. Vincent Millay. She also had a mother who knew intimately the poetic greats of her Vassar generation. Rebecca grew up in a highly literate family with Pulitzer Prize novelists and poets as in-laws and confidants. Remnants of which became a life support gathering after she escaped from the organization of her first religion. Unitarianism became her faith community for the rest of her life. And the mentors of her poetry surrounded her, as did the community of Belfast, the churches and most especially the fellow poets who with merit and appreciation sustained her writing for the dozen years she lived here, until cancer took her life.Rebecca had children and grandchildren. Her son Adam Goldstein, a writer, Irish Folk singer, entertainer and journalist in Colorado. Her daughter Sheyna Goldstein-Weinstein who is lives in Israel as a convert to Judaism with her family and four children. Her adopted son Justin Phelps who is married and lives in Sweden and has a daughter Astrid. A stepdaughter, Amber Newcomer, who lives in Connecticut, has a daughter Lillian, and is a trained chef.Rebecca reconnected to her first love, Duncan Newcomer, and they lived together in New Harmony, Indiana, and moved to Belfast, Maine, in 2013. They were married in the Waldo Country General Hospital chapel two months before she died.Rebecca was exceedingly proud of her poetry, her knowledge and love of Latin, her marriage, her children, and the authenticity of her evolving spiritual life.-Duncan Newcomer Read More Read Less