Summary: <p><strong>Howard Nemerov</strong> (February 29, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet. He was twice <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet_Laureate_Consultant_in_Poetry_to_the_Library_of_Congress" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress</a>, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Nemerov#cite_note-1" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[1]</a> For <em>The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov</em> (1977), he won the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Book_Award_for_Poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">National Book Award for Poetry</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Nemerov#cite_note-nba1978-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[2]</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Poetry" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Pulitzer Prize for Poetry</a>,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Nemerov#cite_note-pulitzer-3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[3]</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bollingen_Prize" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bollingen Prize</a>.</p><p>Nemerov was brother to photographer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diane_Arbus" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Diane Nemerov Arbus</a> and father to art historian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nemerov" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Alexander Nemerov</a>, Professor of the History of Art and American Studies at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Stanford University</a>. </p><br><p><em>Bio via Wikipedia </em></p><br><hr><p style="color:grey;font-size:0.75em;"> See <a style="color:grey;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://acast.com/privacy">acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>
