Frances Minturn Howard (March 15, 1905 New York City – July 23, 1995 Boston)[1] was an American poet.
Life
She studied sculpture in Italy.[2]
In 1957, she met and corresponded with May Sarton.[3] In 1959, Sylvia Plath came to dinner.[4]
She was published in Virginia Quarterly Review,[5] Saturday Review,[6] AGNI,[7] The New Yorker,[8] Poetry Magazine,[9]
She was married to Thomas Clark Howard and lived at 46 Mount Vernon Street. Beacon Hill, Boston. Earlier in their marriage, they had lived in New York City and Providence, Rhode Island. They also maintained a summer house on Rhode Island Avenue, in Newport, Rhode Island.
Awards
- 1955 Golden Rose Award
- 1957 Reynolds Lyric Award
Works
- "Heron in Swamp; The True and Happy Fable of Beauty and the Beast; The Sleeping Beauty" (PDF). Beloit Poetry Journal. 9. Summer 1959.
Poetry
- Sleep without Armor. Dutton. 1953.
- All Keys are Glass. Dutton. 1950.
Anthologies
- Bonner, Amy, ed. (1946). "Foundation; Martyr". The Poetry Society of America anthology. Ayer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8369-6003-7.
- Cane, Melville, ed. (1960). The golden year: the Poetry Society of America anthology (1910-1960). Fine Editions Press. ISBN 0-8369-6004-1.
- PEN (Organization), ed. (1966). New poems. Michael Joseph.
Non-fiction
- Beacon Hill, Hub of the Universe: Hub of the Universe. Mark Kelley (illus.). Yankee. 1977. ISBN 978-0-911658-77-4.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link) - Frances Minturn Howard; McKay, Ruth C.; Beacon Hill Garden Club; Kalischer, Clemens; Beacon Hill Garden Club (1972). Hidden Gardens of Beacon Hill. Clemens Kalischer (illus.). Beacon Hill Garden Club.
References
- ↑ Massachusetts Death Index: Frances M Howard
- ↑ "Frances M. Howard Boston author, poet; at 90". The Boston Globe. July 25, 1995.
- ↑ Sarton, May (2002). Sherman, Susan (ed.). May Sarton. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-05111-7.
- ↑ Plath, Sylvia (2000). Kukil, Karen V. (ed.). The unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962. Random House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-385-72025-0.
- ↑ "The Virginia quarterly review". University of Virginia. 1953.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ De Voto, Bernard Augustine (July 1952). "Saturday review".
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ↑ "Agni Online". 7 July 2022.
- ↑ "Search : The New Yorker". www.newyorker.com. Archived from the original on 2011-06-07.
- ↑ "Poetry magazine: Historical Index". Archived from the original on 2009-02-26. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
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