What is Inez Meter?
{{Infobox person | name = Inez Meter | image = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|10|19|df=y}} | birth_place = [[Gouda, Netherlands]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2022|10|10|1925|10|19|df=y}} | death_place = Gouda, Netherlands | monuments = | residence = | nationality = Dutch | occupation = poet | known_for = | relatives = | awards = }} '''Inez Meter''' (19 October 1925 – 10 October 2022) was a Dutch poet from [[Gouda, Netherlands|Gouda]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Janet|last=Hoogendoorn|url=https://www.diegoude.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Dichteres-Inez-Meeter-2005-3.pdf|title=Dichteres Inez Meter: een leven in verwondering|work=Tidinge van Die Gouda|via=diegoude.nl/|date=2005|access-date=21 October 2022|language=nl|archive-date=27 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327204057/https://www.diegoude.nl/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Dichteres-Inez-Meeter-2005-3.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> ==Biography== [[File:Hoge Gouwe 47 Gouda.jpg|thumb|left|125px|{{ill|De Windhondt|nl}} where Meter was born]] [[File:20190320 Weerzien In hun namen keren zij weer Inez Meter Edwin Vreeken Gouda.jpg|thumb|150px|''Weerzien'' afer a poem by Meter]] Meter was born in 1925 in {{ill|De Windhondt|nl}}, a monumental canal house in [[Gouda, Netherlands|Gouda]]. Meter would live her entire life in Gouda. After her education at the ULO, she became a kindergarten teacher, first in Gouda and later in [[Rotterdam]] and [[Gouderak]].<ref name=ref1 /> Meter became the first city poet of Gouda in 2003. Poems of her can be read in many places in the city center including in the form of art objects.<ref name=ref1>{{cite web|url=https://www.goudsepost.nl/nieuws/algemeen/325838/inez-meter-vaarwel-grande-dame |title=Inez Meter: Vaarwel grande dame|work=Goudse Post|date=13 October 2022|access-date=21 October 2022|language=nl}}</ref> She became known in Gouda for her poems after winning the encouragement prize for literature from the municipality of Gouda in 1975. In 2015, Meter was made an honorary