Howard Nemerov (1920 - 1991)

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Howard Nemerov was born on February 29th, 1920 in New York, New York. He graduated from the Society for Ethical Culture's Fieldstone School in 1937 and went on to study at Harvard, where he earned his bachelor's degree in 1941. Throughout World War II, he served as a pilot in the Royal Canadian unit of the U. S. Army Air Force. He married in 1944, and after the war, having earned the rank of first lieutenant, returned to New York with his wife to complete his first book. He then began te.. Continue..

Some of Howard Nemerov Poems

September, The First Day Of School

Learning by Doing

A Spell before Winter

The Makers

Lion & Honeycomb

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	Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

- Howard Nemerov

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