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

Howard Moss was the poetry editor of the New Yorker for almost forty years. In that influential capacity, this quiet, unassuming man was one of the key figures in American letters in the late twentieth century, boosting the careers of many young poets by publishing their work in one of the few mass circulation magazines which bought poetry and ...

2025年1月18日 · Howard Moss (born Jan. 22, 1922, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Sept. 16, 1987, New York) was an American poet and editor who was the poetry editor of The New Yorker magazine for almost 40 years.

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

Credited with discovering many major American poets, Moss is best known for his work as an editor and helped establish the careers of poets such as James Dickey, Anne Sexton, Theodore Roethke, Sylvia Plath, and Mark Strand.

Howard Moss (1922-1987) was an American poet, dramatist, children's author, editor, and critic. Born in New York City, he attended the University of Michigan 1939-1940 where he won a Hopwood Award; Harvard University during the summer of 1942; and received his BA from the University of Wisconsin in 1943.

1987年9月17日 · Howard Moss, a poet who for almost 40 years was the poetry editor of The New Yorker, died of cardiac arrest yesterday at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center of New York. Mr. Moss...

2010年3月2日 · During his tenure, Moss established the magazine’s reputation for poetry, overseeing the New Yorker débuts of a remarkable range of poets, including Donald Hall, Sylvia Plath, Galway...

The Poetry Foundation Biography The New York Times Obituary (September 17, 1987)

Poet, critic, dramatist, and editor Howard Moss was born on January 22, 1922 in New York. Moss was poetry editor of the New Yorker magazine for over three decades, until his death in 1987. He received the National Book Award for poetry for his Selected Poems in 1971.