BOOK ENDS; Talking With Nemerov
HOWARD NEMEROV, whose "Collected Poems" captured a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award last year, was in town recently on a brief visit from St. Louis, where he teaches at Washington University,...
View ArticleNemerov First Winner Of Taylor Poetry Prize
LEAD: Howard Nemerov, the author of some 30 books of poetry and fiction, has been chosen as the first winner of the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. The $10,000 prize, administered by the...
View ArticleU.S. ARTS MEDALS PRESENTED
LEAD: Winners of the National Medal of Arts - a painter, a singer, two poets, a choreographer, a sculptor and a composer - were honored at the White House today by President and Mrs. Reagan.
View ArticleHoward Nemerov Named 3d U.S. Poet Laureate
LEAD: Twenty-five years ago, Howard Nemerov held the chair of consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, a title that has since been redesignated and glorified by Public Law 99-194, enacted in...
View ArticleHeadliners; Voice in Verse
LEAD: Call it a case of poetic justice. In a verse written 30 years ago, Howard Nemerov poked fun at the job of poet laureate, with its long hours and low pay; last week, he was appointed poet laureate...
View ArticleOde to Whatshisname
LEAD: In World War II the Library of Congress awarded a poetry prize to Ezra Pound, whose Fascist sympathies were well known, and Congress reacted by barring the library from giving out any new prizes.
View ArticleReaching the Peak
LEAD: The subject of Howard Nemerov's first talk as the nation's Poet Laureate, given at the Library of Congress last week, was ''Poetry and Nonsense.''
View ArticleNemerov Reappointed As U.S. Poet Laureate
LEAD: Howard Nemerov has been appointed to a second term as poet laureate of the United States by the Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington.
View ArticleHoward Nemerov, Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Recipient, Dies at 71
Howard Nemerov, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former poet laureate of the United States, died late Friday at his house in University City, a suburb of St. Louis. He was 71 years old. Mr. Nemerov...
View ArticleThe Other New England Poet
THE SELECTED POEMS OF HOWARD NEMEROV Edited by Daniel Anderson. 154 pp. Athens: Swallow Press/Ohio University Press. Cloth, $24.95. Paper, $16.95.
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