Barbara Howes (May 1, 1914 New York City – February 24, 1996 Bennington, Vermont) was an American poet.
[2] In 1971, she signed a letter protesting proposed cuts to the School of the Arts, Columbia University.
Reading the Collected Poems, one sees Howes very clearly as a woman writing in one of the oddest but most important traditions of American poetry.
Howes stands with Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, and ultimately Emily Dickinson in a lineage of women writers passionately committed to the independence and singularity of the poetic imagination.
(To this group one might also add Louise Bogan, Julia Randall, May Swenson, and Josephine Miles).