Creator Bio
Howard Nemerov
1920–1991
Born and raised in New York City, Howard Nemerov was the U.S. poet laureate from 1988 to 1990. A distinguished poet and novelist, as well as the author of criticism, short stories, and nonfiction, he was a professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Nemerov’s writing received many major awards, including the National Book Award, the Pulitzer Prize, the Bollingen Prize, and the National Medal of the Arts.
Entries in the Posen Library by This Creator
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Nicodemus
I went under cover of night
By back streets and alleyways,
Not as one secret and ashamed
But with a natural discretion.
I passed by a boy and a girl
Embraced against the white wall
In parts of…
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IFF
Hate Hitler? No, I spared him hardly a thought.
But Corporal Irmin, first, and later on
The O.C.(Flying), Wing Commander Briggs,
And the station C.O. Group Captain Ormery—
Now there were men were…