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March 1, 1920
Howard Nemerov, American poet and academic (died 1991)

Howard Nemerov
Howard Nemerov was an American poet. Nemerov was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Poet in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. For The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977), he won the National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize.
March 1
March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 305 days remain until the end of the year.