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Author Description Barbara Howes was an American poet.<br /><br />She graduated from Bennington College in 1937. She worked briefly for the Southern Tenant Farmers Union in Mississippi, and then edited the literary magazine, <i>Chimera</i>, 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.<br /><br />In 1971, she signed a letter protesting proposed cuts to the School of the Arts, Columbia University.<br /><br />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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