September 16 - Howard Moss, American poet, dramatist, and critic (b. 1922)

Is there any poet they didn't publish, thanks to Howard Moss?

I'm also very glad he speaks so handsomely of Howard Moss and Louise Bogan.

Howard Moss, the late poetry editor of The New Yorker, used to keep a picture of Merwin on his wall.

Howard Moss (January 22, 1922 - September 16, 1987) was an American poet, dramatist and critic.

Walker had also submitted poems to The New Yorker, where Howard Moss made his work welcome.

At age 23, he sold two poems over the transom to The New Yorker's poetry editor, Howard Moss, who became a friend and adviser.

Bowen has a "hard-grained intelligence" and "an understanding of the most subtle feelings," Howard Moss said here in 1968.

Howard Moss, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Selected Poems in 1971.

I don't know any pure literary magazine that has had as consistent a quality of poetry as The New Yorker under Howard Moss.