[1] In 1988 he and his wife, pianist Barbara Nissman, moved from New York to a farm in the Allegheny Mountains of West Virginia, where he lived until his death.
[12] He personally raised $20,000 for the engraving of the wall and monuments to the first writers elected for induction (Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Washington Irving).
[13] The "Service of Dedication" of the American Poets' Corner took place on May 7, 1984, and featured such diverse talents as Edgar Bowers, Walter Cronkite, Zubin Mehta, Barbara Nissman, Gregory Peck, Michael Tree, Rosalyn Tureck, Robert Penn Warren, and Paul Winter.
Cunningham, Guy Davenport, Anthony Hecht, John Hollander, Josephine Miles, Ann Stanford, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wilbur to be part of the voting to select two American poets to be honored every year.
[15] Haberman was succeeded as Poet-in-Residence in May 1986 by William Jay Smith,[16] and continued to serve as an Elector of the American Poets' Corner until his death in 1991.