Howard Moss

Howard Moss (January 22, 1922–September 16, 1987) was an American poet, dramatist and critic, who was poetry editor of "The New Yorker" magazine from 1948 until his death. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971 and the National Book Award in 1972 for "Selected Poems."

Moss was born in New York City. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won a Hopwood Award. He is credited with discovering a number of major American poets, including Anne Sexton and Amy Clampitt.

W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman co-wrote a famously concise clerihew in his honor:

:TO THE POETRY EDITOR OF THE NEW YORKER

::Is Robert Lowell
Better than Noel
Coward,
Howard?

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)

Other

*"Instant Lives & More" (1972)