Louis Edward Sissman (January 1, 1928 Detroit – March 10, 1976) was an American poet and advertising executive.
Near the end of World War II Sissman entered Harvard.
Eventually, he was hired by Quinn and Johnson Advertising, in Boston, and he rose to the position of Creative Vice President.
He wrote book reviews and poems for The New Yorker,[1] monthly columns for The Atlantic, and was published in Harper's Magazine.
And Edward Hirsch, in the foreword to Night Music, states, "He provides an example of wit schooled by feeling and deepened by experience, of intellect coming together with restrained but warm underlying emotion, of poetic freedom enabled by expertise."—P.