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{{short description|American poet}}

'''Skipwith Cannell''' (1887–1957) was an American [[poet]] associated with the [[Imagist]] group.  His surname is pronounced with the accent on the second syllable.  He was a friend of [[William Carlos Williams]], and like [[Ezra Pound]] he came from [[Philadelphia]]. Cannell studied at the [[University of Virginia]] and was enthusiastic about the work of [[Edgar Allan Poe]] and the free verse of The [[King James Version]] of The Bible. He was briefly married to [[Kathleen Eaton Cannell]], who was generally known as 'Kitty'.

Cannell met Pound in [[Paris]] in 1913. Pound sent some of Cannell's poems to [[Harriet Monroe]].  Back in [[London]], Pound took Cannell and Kitty to visit [[William Butler Yeats|Yeats]] and found a room for the couple below his own in Church Walk, [[Kensington]].

Cannell's work appeared in the first Imagist anthology, edited by Pound and published by Poetry Bookshop in  1914  ''[[Des Imagistes]]''<ref>Hughes, Glenn, ''Imagisms & The Imagists'', Bibbs&Tannen, New York, 1972 {{ISBN|0-8196-0282-5}}</ref>  and ''The New Poetry: An Anthology'', edited by Harriet Monroe and [[Alice Corbin Henderson]] in 1917.

Cannell and Kitty divorced in 1921. There were no children from this first marriage. Cannell married secondly Juliette Del Grange, a French national with whom he had two daughters, May and Sarah. His second marriage also ended in divorce. He married a third time to Catherine Pettigrew, with whom he had five additional children, David, Mary, Michael, John and Susan.

He was closely involved with [[Alfred Kreymborg]]'s magazine ''[[Others: A Magazine of the New Verse]]''.