Richard Howard
Richard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022), adopted as
Richard Joseph Orwitz, was an American poet,
literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was
poet laureate of New York from 1993 to 1995. He was born in
Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from
Columbia University, where he studied under
Mark Van Doren, and where he was an emeritus professor. He lived in
New York City.
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