Joseph Auslander was an American poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

, anthologist, translator of poems, and novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

ist. Auslander was appointed the first Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress

Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress

The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress—commonly referred to as the United States Poet Laureate—serves as the nation's official poet. During his or her term, the Poet Laureate seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of the reading and writing of...

 from 1937 and 1941.

Auslander was married to Audrey Wurdemann

Audrey Wurdemann

Audrey Wurdemann was an American poet.She was the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry at the age of 24, for her collection Bright Ambush...

, a Pulitzer Prize winner in poetry; they lived at 3117 35th Street Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Cathedral Heights

Cathedral Heights

Cathedral Heights is a small, residential neighborhood located in the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. It is approximately bounded by Woodley Road to the north, Fulton Street to the south, Wisconsin Avenue to the east, and Glover Archbold Park and Idaho Avenue to the...

 neighborhood.

Their papers are held at the University of Miami

University of Miami

The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...

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Works

• More Than Bread: A Book of Poems
• Cyclops' Eye
• My Uncle Jan,: A Novel
• No Traveller Returns: A Book of Poems
• My Uncle Jan (by Joseph Auslander and Audrey Wurdemann)
• The Unconquerables: Salutes to the Undying Spirit of the Nazi-Occupied Countries
• The Islanders
• Cyclop's Eye
• Letters to Women
• Riders at the Gate: A Volume of Verse
• The Vigil of Venus
• Green World: A Book of Poems