Complex sentence: As a Barnard student, Elise Cowen extensively read the poetry of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, when she met Joyce Johnson and Leo Skir, among other Beat players.
Split into simpler sentences: As a Barnard student, Elise Cowen extensively read the poetry of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. She later met Joyce Johnson and Leo Skir, among other Beat players.