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Barbara Howes

Born

in New York, The United States

May 01, 1914

Died

February 24, 1996

Genre

Literature, Poetry

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Barbara Howes was an American poet.

She graduated from Bennington College in 1937. She worked briefly for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Mississippi, and then edited the literary magazine, Chimera, from 1943 to 1947 and lived in Greenwich Village. In 1947 she married the poet William Jay Smith, and they lived for a time in England and Italy. They divorced in the mid-1960s, and she lived in Pownal, Vermont.

In 1971, she signed a letter protesting proposed cuts to the School of the Arts, Columbia University.

Her work was published in, Atlantic, Chicago Review, New Directions, New Republic, New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Saturday Review, Southern Review, University of Kansas Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and Yale Review.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 149 ratings · 16 reviews · 39 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Eye of the Heart: Short Stories from Latin America 3.99 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 1973 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Green Antilles: Caribbean Writings by Barbara Howes (Editor), Derek Walcott, V.S. Naipaul 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1971 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sea-Green Horse by Barbara Howes (Editor), Jay Smith (Editor), Eleanor Clark 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The blue garden liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Light and Dark: Poems 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1959 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Poems, 1945-1990 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moving (Elysian Press poetry series) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1983 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Private Signal: Poems New and Selected 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1977 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Looking Up At Leaves 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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