Louise Townsend Nicholl

Louise Townsend Nicholl (1890, Scotch Plains, New Jersey – November 10, 1981, Plainfield, New Jersey) 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 (1921–1925), 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 two sisters, Mrs. Robert Lowery Van Dyke, and Mrs. John Sherburne Valentine.

Reviews
New York Times: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."

Rcognition

 * 1954 - Academy of American Poets Fellowship
 * 1965 - Lowell Mason Palmer Award
 * 1971 - Shelley Memorial Award

Poetry