Louise Townsend Nicholl

American poet

Louise Townsend Nicholl
Born	1890 Scotch Plains, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	November 10, 1981 (aged 90–91) Plainfield, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Smith College
Genre	Poetry

Louise Townsend Nicholl (1890, Scotch Plains, New Jersey – November 10, 1981, Plainfield, New Jersey) was an American poet, and editor.^[1]

Life

She graduated from Smith College,^[2] where she studied with Adelaide Crapsey.^[3]

She worked at The New York Evening Post, Contemporary Verse,^[4] Measure (1921–1925),^[5]^[6] and was an editor at E. P. Dutton.^[7]

She was a friend of Louise Bogan,^[8] and Gore Vidal.^[9] She corresponded with George Dillon.^[10]

She was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 1953.^[11]

Her work appeared in The New Yorker,^[12] Saturday Review,^[13] The forum,^[14] The Literary Review,^[15] The Independent,^[16]

She lived in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and had three sisters, Mrs. Robert Lowery Van Dyke, Marion Nicholl Rawson and Mrs. John Sherburne Valentine.^[17]

Awards

1954 Academy of American Poets' Fellowship
1965 Lowell Mason Palmer Award ^[18]
1971 The Shelley Memorial Award ^[19]

Works

Poetry

Bonner, Amy, ed. (1946). "Refraction". The Poetry Society of America anthology. Ayer Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8369-6003-7.
The Blossom-print. E.P. Dutton & Company, Inc. 1938.
Water and Light. E. P. Dutton & company, inc. 1939.
Dawn in snow. E.P. Dutton. 1941.
Life is the Flesh: Poems. E.P. Dutton. 1947.
The Explicit Flower. Dutton. 1952.
Collected Poems. Dutton. 1953.
The world's one clock. St. Martin's Press. 1959.
The blood that is language. John Day Co. 1967.

Anthologies

Esther Morgan McCullough, ed. (1956). As I pass, O Manhattan: an anthology of life in New York. Coley Taylor.
Robert Penn Warren, ed. (1984). Fifty years of American poetry: anniversary volume for the Academy of American Poets. H.N. Abrams.

Non-fiction

Louise Townsend Nicholl (June 17, 1916). "Sophia Smith's House in Order". The Saturday Evening Post Magazine.

References

^ "Louise Townsend Nicholl". Contemporary Authors Online. Farmington Hills, Michigan: Gale. 2009.
^ The Smith College Monthly. 1912.
^ Drake, William (1 July 1987). The first wave: women poets in America, 1915-1945. Macmillan. ISBN 9780025334908.
^ Hills, William Henry; Luce, Robert (1919-01-01). The Writer. The Writer.
^ Hills, William Henry; Luce, Robert (1925-01-01). The Writer. The Writer.
^ Pope, Deborah (1999-03-01). A Separate Vision: Isolation in Contemporary Women's Poetry. LSU Press. ISBN 9780807124666.
^ Saul, George Brandon (1967-01-01). Quintet: Essays on Five American Women Poets. Mouton. ISBN 9783111013695.
^ Frank, Elizabeth (1986). Louise Bogan: A Portrait. Columbia University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-231-06315-9.
^ Kaplan, Fred (1999). Gore Vidal: a biography. Doubleday. p. 184. ISBN 978-0-385-47703-1.
^ "George Dillon Papers an inventory of his papers at Syracuse University".
^ Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer (1997). The Pulitzer Prize archive: a history and anthology of award-winning materials in journalism, letters, and arts. Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-598-30181-0.
^ "Search". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2016-04-12.
^ Voto, Bernard Augustine De (1952-01-01). Saturday Review. Saturday Review Associates.
^ The Dial. Jansen, McClurg. 1915-01-01.
^ The Literary Review. Fairleigh Dickinson University. 1959-01-01.
^ Bacon, Leonard; Thompson, Joseph Parrish; Storrs, Richard Salter; Beecher, Henry Ward; Leavitt, Joshua; Bowen, Henry Chandler; Tilton, Theodore; Ward, William Hayes; Holt, Hamilton (1923-01-01). The Independent. founders of the Weekly Review.
^ "MISS AVIS VAN DYKE MARRIED IN GARDEN; New York Girl Wed to Edwin Clemence at Home of Aunt in Scotch Plains". The New York Times. June 13, 1937.
^ Gilroy, Harry (January 22, 1965). "Poetry Society Hails Dante, 700; Young Writers Win Awards Set Up Through Bequest A 'Paradiso' Canto Is Sung -- Stahl Leads Work". The New York Times. Retrieved May 11, 2010.
^ "Previous Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2009-11-01. Retrieved 2009-07-01.

External links

Works by or about Louise Townsend Nicholl at Internet Archive
Ulrich, Dorothy (October 1, 1939). "Poems by Louise Townsend Nicholl". The New York Times.
Hillyer, Robert (December 20, 1953). "Poet of Revelation". The New York Times.