Talk:Howard Moss

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HOWARD MOSS (songwriter)

Should there not be a link to Howard Moss (songwriter) from this page? Stevieboy1950 (talk) 15:18, 25 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

HOWARD MOSS, singer-songwriter

I am wondering why there is no mention or page for Howard Moss, the Anglo-Irish singer, songwriter & guitarist from County Meath, who has had chart hits. Moss is of particular relevance in Ireland and Europe. He had the hit Delilah and Sally Forth (EP) in the 1990's as can be verified by the website http://www.irishcharts.ie/ . These were released through TEL RECORDS together with the albums TEMPUS FUGIT and OUTSIDE THE PALE.

Pulitzer Prize

The article claims that Moss won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1971. This is incorrect. William S. Merwin won the prize in 1971 (as it is also stated on the official website www.pulitzer.org). To my knowledge, Moss never won the Pultzer Prize. 141.30.71.153 (talk) 09:41, 20 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I removed the Pulitzer Prize bit. If even the official website of the Pulitzer prize does not support the claim in the article then it should most certainly not be in it. 217.255.238.198 (talk) 10:35, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"Closeted homosexual"? (Jesus, you could have fooled me. . .)

Howard Moss may have been secretive about his HIV status (as was his close friend, James Merrill), but Edmund White's assertion that he was a "closeted homosexual" (footnoted!!) is simply incorrect. I interviewed him for Princeton's Nassau Literary Review as an undergraduate in 1986, taping our conversation in his New York apartment; I vividly remember him kissing his younger boyfriend in an "I've got nothing to hide" manner when he arrived at the door. Certainly he was not as politically demonstrative as Edmund White—relatively few gay writers were at the time, and the AIDS crisis created a sense among many activists that "establishment gays" were not doing nearly enough—but Moss was neither "closeted" in life nor on the page, as any careful reading of his poetry reveals. It is difficult on Wikipedia to remove a sourced footnote, but I strongly feel the source should be questioned in this instance. It is an unnecessary aspersion on Moss's character. — Sandover (talk) 01:56, 12 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]