Frances Minturn Howard Explained

Frances Minturn Howard (March 15, 1905 New York City – July 23, 1995 Boston)^[1] was an American poet.

Life

She studied sculpture in Italy.^[2]

In 1957, she met and corresponded with May Sarton.^[3] In 1959, Sylvia Plath came to dinner.^[4]

She was published in Virginia Quarterly Review,^[5] Saturday Review,^[6] AGNI,^[7] The New Yorker,^[8] Poetry Magazine,^[9]

She was married to Thomas Clark Howard and lived at 46 Mount Vernon Street. Beacon Hill, Boston. Earlier in their marriage, they had lived in New York City and Providence, Rhode Island. They also maintained a summer house on Rhode Island Avenue, in Newport, Rhode Island.

Awards

• 1955 Golden Rose Award
• 1957 Reynolds Lyric Award

Works

• Heron in Swamp; The True and Happy Fable of Beauty and the Beast; The Sleeping Beauty. Beloit Poetry Journal. 9 . Summer 1959 .

Poetry

• Book: Sleep without Armor . registration . Dutton. 1953 .
• Book: All Keys are Glass . Dutton. 1950 .

Anthologies

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=utpjDV4jrzAC&q=Frances+Minturn+Howard&pg=PA94. Foundation; Martyr . The Poetry Society of America anthology . Amy. Bonner. Ayer Publishing. 1946. 978-0-8369-6003-7 .
• Book: The golden year: the Poetry Society of America anthology (1910-1960). Melville. Cane. Fine Editions Press. 1960. 0-8369-6004-1.
• Book: New poems. PEN (Organization). Michael Joseph. 1966 .

Non-fiction

• Book: Beacon Hill, Hub of the Universe: Hub of the Universe. Mark Kelley (illus.). Yankee. 1977. 978-0-911658-77-4.
• Book: Hidden Gardens of Beacon Hill. Clemens Kalischer (illus.). Beacon Hill Garden Club. 1972. Frances Minturn Howard . Ruth C. . McKay . Beacon Hill Garden Club . Clemens . Kalischer . Beacon Hill Garden Club .

Notes and References

1. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VZRS-FKD Massachusetts Death Index: Frances M Howard
2. News: Frances M. Howard Boston author, poet; at 90 . The Boston Globe . July 25, 1995 .
3. Book: Sarton, May. May Sarton . Susan. Sherman. W. W. Norton & Company. 2002. 978-0-393-05111-7 .
4. Book: Plath, Sylvia. The unabridged journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962 . Karen V.. Kukil. Random House, Inc.. 2000. 978-0-385-72025-0 .
5. The Virginia quarterly review . University of Virginia . 1953.
6. Saturday review . De Voto . Bernard Augustine . July 1952.
7. Web site: Agni Online. 7 July 2022 .
8. Web site: Search : The New Yorker . www.newyorker.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110607041742/http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?queryType=nonparsed&query=Frances+Minturn+Howard&bylquery=&page=&sort=&submit.x=39&submit.y=3 . 2011-06-07.
9. Web site: Poetry magazine: Historical Index . 2009-06-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090226010302/http://www.poetrymagazine.org/magazine/h7.html . 2009-02-26 . dead .