Louise Townsend Nicholl


Louise Townsend Nicholl was an American poet, and editor.

Life

She graduated from Smith College, where she studied with Adelaide Crapsey.
She worked at The New York Evening Post, Contemporary Verse, Measure, and was an editor at E. P. Dutton.
She was a friend of Louise Bogan, and Gore Vidal. She corresponded with George Dillon.
She was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 1953.
Her work appeared in The New Yorker, Saturday Review, The forum, The Literary Review, The Independent,
She lived in Scotch Plains, New Jersey, and had three sisters, Mrs. Robert Lowery Van Dyke, Marion Nicholl Rawson and Mrs. John Sherburne Valentine.

Awards

Poetry

THE world which Louise Townsend Nichell explores in her poems is small, but the largest that we know. Within it she moves surely, easily, always on familiar ground. It is an anthropocentric world, in which time is measured in heartbeats, and in which the supreme miracle is the transmutation of human experience into poetry.