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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,...

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Nemerov 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...

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U.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.

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Howard 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...

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Headliners; 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...

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Ode 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.

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Reaching 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.''

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Nemerov 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.

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Howard 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...

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The 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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