Howard Moss was an American poet

Poetry of the United States

American poetry, the poetry of the United States, arose first as efforts by colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the thirteen colonies...

, dramatist and critic

Literary criticism

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, who was poetry editor of The New Yorker

The New Yorker

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magazine from 1948 until his death. He won the National Book Award

National Book Award

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 in 1972 for Selected Poems.

Biography

Moss was born in New York City

New York City

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. He attended the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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, where he won a Hopwood Award

Hopwood Award

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. He is credited with discovering a number of major American poets, including Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967...

 and Amy Clampitt

Amy Clampitt

-Life:Amy Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920 of Quaker parents, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. In the American Academy of Arts and Letters and at nearby Grinnell College she began a study of English literature that eventually led her to poetry. She graduated from Grinnell College, and from...

. He was a closeted

Closeted

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 homosexual.

W. H. Auden

W. H. Auden

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 and Chester Kallman

Chester Kallman

Chester Simon Kallman was an American poet, librettist, and translator, best known for his collaborations with W. H. Auden and Igor Stravinsky.-Life:...

 co-wrote a famously concise clerihew

Clerihew

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 in his honor:

TO THE POETRY EDITOR OF THE NEW YORKER

Is Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell

Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet, considered the founder of the confessional poetry movement. He was appointed the sixth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress where he served from 1947 until 1948...

Better than Noel

Noël Coward

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Coward

Noël Coward

Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".Born in Teddington, a suburb of London, Coward attended a dance academy...

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Poetry

• The Wound and the Weather (1946)
• The Toy Fair (1954)
• A Swimmer in the Air (1957)
• A Winter Come, A Summer Gone: Poems, 1946-1960 (1960)
• Finding Them Lost and Other Poems (1965)
• Second Nature (1968)
• Selected Poems (1971)
• Buried City: Poems (1975)

Plays

• The Folding Green (1958)
• The Oedipus Mah-Jongg Scandal (1968)
• The Palace at 4 A.M. (1972)