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.
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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. He was a closeted homosexual.[1]
W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman co-wrote a famously concise clerihew in his honor:
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