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Richard Howard

Richard Howard was born in Cleveland, Ohio on October 13, 1929, the son of an impoverished Jewish woman who put him up for adoption. His adoptive mother, Emma Joseph, married three times; "Howard" was the anglicized

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October 13

Richard Howard born, 1929

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

Who, at the start of the Second World War, took a 26 year hiatus from poetry and focused on his career as a social worker?

Answer

Carl Rakosi, one of the original Objectivists, stopped writing and reading poetry from 1941 to 1967.

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