{{short description|American writer}} {{Infobox writer | name = Barbara Howes | birth_date = May 1, 1914 | birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|mf=y|1996|2|24|1914|5|1}} | death_place = Bennington, Vermont, U.S. | genre = poetry | alma_mater = Bennington College }}
'''Barbara Howes''' (May 1, 1914 – February 24, 1996) was an American poet.
==Life== She was adopted and raised in Chestnut Hill, attending Beaver Country Day School. She graduated from Bennington College in 1937. She edited the literary magazine ''Chimera'' from 1943 to 1947<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-QgQAAAAIAAJ ''The Chimera: A Literary Quarterly''], Volumes 1-3.</ref> and lived in Greenwich Village. In 1947 she married the poet William Jay Smith and had two sons, David and Gregory. After divorcing in "the mid-1960s", she lived in Pownal, Vermont.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/25/us/barbara-howes-poet-and-editor-dies-at-81.html| title=Barbara Howes, Poet and Editor, Dies at 81| author=Eric Pace| date=February 25, 1996| work=The New York Times }}</ref>
In 1971, she signed a letter protesting proposed cuts to the School of the Arts, Columbia University.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10694| volume=15| number=12| date= January 7, 1971| title=School of the Arts| work=The New York Review of Books }}</ref>
Her work was published in: ''Atlantic'', ''Chicago Review'', ''New Directions'', ''New Republic'', ''New Yorker'',<ref>[http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Barbara%20Howes%22 "Barbara Howes"], Contributors, ''The New Yorker''.</ref> ''New York Times Book Review'', ''Saturday Review'', ''Southern Review'', ''University of Kansas Review'', ''Virginia Quarterly Review'', and ''Yale Review''.
==Awards== * Golden Rose Award * nominated for the 1995 National Book Award for ''The Collected Poems of Barbara Howes, 1945-1990''
==Works== * {{cite journal| url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=14355| title=The Nuns Assist at Childbirth| journal=Poetry | date=February 1949}} *{{cite journal| url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=179083| title=A Few Days Ago| journal=Poetry Foundation}} *{{cite journal| url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=14352| title=In the Cold Country| journal=Poetry | date=February 1949}} *{{cite journal| url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177445| title=Light and Dark| journal=Poetry Foundation| date=31 May 2022}} *{{cite journal| url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=177446| title=The Lonely Pipefish| journal=Poetry Foundation| date=31 May 2022}} *{{cite journal| url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=14355| title=The Nuns Assist at Childbirth| journal=Poetry| date=February 1949 }}
===Poetry=== * {{cite book| title=The Undersea Farmer| publisher=Banyan Press| place=Pawlet, VT| year=1948 }} * {{cite book| title=In the Cold Country| publisher=Bonacio & Saul/Grove Press | place=New York City| year=1954 }} * {{cite book| title=Light and Dark| publisher=Wesleyan University Press | place=Middletown, CT| year=1959| isbn=978-0-8195-1001-3 }} * {{cite book| title=Looking Up at Leaves| url=https://archive.org/details/lookingupatleave00howe| url-access=registration| publisher=Knopf | place=New York, NY| year=1966}} * {{cite book| title=The Blue Garden| publisher=Wesleyan University Press| year=1972| isbn=978-0-8195-2062-3| url=https://archive.org/details/bluegarden0000howe}} * {{cite book| title=A Private Signal: Poems New and Selected| publisher=Wesleyan University Press| year=1977| isbn=978-0-8195-5013-2| url=https://archive.org/details/privatesignalpoe0000howe}} *Moving, Elysian Press (New York, NY), 1983. * {{cite book| title=The Collected Poems of Barbara Howes, 1945-1990| publisher=University of Arkansas Press| place=Fayetteville| year=1995| isbn=978-1-55728-336-8| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/collectedpoems190000howe}}
===Fiction=== * {{cite book| title=23 Modern Stories| publisher=Vintage| year=1963}} * {{cite book| author=Gregory Jay Smith| title=The Sea-Green Horse| publisher=Macmillan| year=1970}}
===Editor=== * {{cite book| title=From the Green Antilles: Writings of the Caribbean| url=https://archive.org/details/fromgreenantille00howe| url-access=registration| publisher=Macmillan| place=New York, NY| year=1966}} * {{cite book| title=The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America| url=https://archive.org/details/eyeofheartsho00howe| url-access=registration| publisher=Bobbs-Merrill | place=Indianapolis, Indiana| year=1973| isbn=9780672516375}} * ''The Road Commissioner and Other Stories'', illustrated by Gregory Smith, Stinehour Press, 1983.
===Anthologies=== * ''New Poems by American Poets'', Ballantine (New York, NY), 1957 * ''Modern Verse in English'', Macmillan, 1958 * ''Modern American Poetry'', Harcourt (New York, NY), 1962 * ''Poet's Choice'', Dial (New York, NY), 1962 * ''Modern Poets'', McGraw (New York City), 1963 * ''Of Poetry and Power'', Basic Books (New York City), 1964 * ''The Girl in the Black Raincoat'', edited by George Garrett, Duell, Sloane & Pierce, 1966 * ''The Marvelous Light'', edited by Helen Plotz, Crowell (New York, NY), 1970 * ''Inside Outer Space'', edited by Robert Vas Dias, Anchor Books (New York, NY), 1970.
==Reviews== <blockquote>Reading the ''Collected Poems'', one sees Howes very clearly as a woman writing in one of the oddest but most important traditions of American poetry. Howes stands with Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and ultimately Emily Dickinson in a lineage of women writers passionately committed to the independence and singularity of the poetic imagination. (To this group one might also add Louise Bogan, Julia Randall, May Swenson, and Josephine Miles). They form an eccentric but eminent sorority.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.danagioia.net/essays/ehowes.htm| work=The Dark Horse | number=2| year=1995| title=A review of Collected Poems: 1945-1990, by Barbara Howes | author=Dana Gioia }}</ref></blockquote>
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== * [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=3307 "Barbara Howes", ''Poetry Foundation''] * Barbara Howes Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
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