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{{short description|American poet}}
{{Infobox writer
| name         = Joseph Auslander
| image        = Joseph Auslander wth pipe.jpg
| birth_date   = {{birth date|mf=y|1897|10|11}}
| birth_place  = [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
| death_date   = {{death date and age|mf=y|1965|06|22|1897|10|11}}
| death_place  = [[Coral Gables, Florida]], U.S.
| occupation   = {{flatlist|
* Poet
* anthologist
* novelist}}
| spouse       = [[Audrey Wurdemann]]
| education    = [[Harvard University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])<br>[[Sorbonne University]]
}}
[[Image:Joseph Auslander To the dutch.jpg|thumb|"Open letter" to the Dutch, World War II poster]]
'''Joseph Auslander''' (October 11, 1897 – June 22, 1965) was an American [[poet]], anthologist, translator of poems, and [[novelist]]. Auslander was appointed the first [[Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress]] from 1937 and 1941.

==Life==
Joseph Auslander was born to Louis and Martha (Asyueck) Auslander on October 11, 1897, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Harvard University in 1917, and in 1919 became an instructor in English at Harvard while engaged in graduate studies. From 1921 to 1922 he attended the Sorbonne in Paris on a Parker fellowship.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/auslander__joseph|title=Auslander {{!}} Pennsylvania Center for the Book|website=pabook.libraries.psu.edu|access-date=2019-04-15}}</ref>

In 1930, Auslander married Svanhild Kreutz, who died in childbirth two years later, leaving a daughter, Svanhild Frances Martha. In 1932 Auslander was married to Pulitzer Prize winning poet, [[Audrey Wurdemann]].;<ref>"Comparing Poems on Like Topics," by Paul Mowbray Wheeler. ''The English Journal''  40 (3): 154–161; 1951</ref> The couple had two children, Louis and Mary.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Joseph Auslander, Poet, Is Dead; Writer of Lyric Verse Was 67|date=23 June 1965|work=New York Times|department=Obituary|page=41}}</ref> From 1937 to 1941, Auslander was the Poet Laureate Consultant in English Poetry for the Library of Congress.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate-1937-1960.html|title=Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry: Past Poets Laureate, 1937-1960 (The Poetry and Literature Center at the Library of Congress)|website=www.loc.gov|access-date=2019-04-15}}</ref> During this time, he and Wurdemann lived at 3117 35th Street [[Northwest, Washington, D.C.]], in the [[Cathedral Heights]] neighborhood.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dcwriters.poetrymutual.org/pages/auslander-wurdemann.html |title=DC Writer's Homes - An Online Guide to Where Authors Lived in the Greater Washington DC Region |publisher=Dcwriters.poetrymutual.org |accessdate=2013-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029193524/http://dcwriters.poetrymutual.org/pages/auslander-wurdemann.html |archive-date=2013-10-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Auslander's best-known work is "The Unconquerables" (1943), a collection of poems addressed to the German-occupied countries of Europe. He served as the poetry editor for the ''[[North American Review]]'' and ''The Measure.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.beltwaypoetry.com/poetry/poets/names/auslander-joseph/|title=Auslander, Joseph {{!}} Beltway Poetry Quarterly|website=www.beltwaypoetry.com|access-date=2019-04-15}}</ref> Auslander was honored with the Robert Frost Prize for Poetry.<ref>"Joseph Auslander." Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003. Literature Resource Center, http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/H1000003756/LitRC?u=viva_vcu&sid=LitRC&xid=3eab1bea . Accessed 15 Apr. 2019.</ref>

Joseph Auslander died of a heart attack on June 22, 1965, in Coral Gables, Florida.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Joseph Auslander, Poet, Is Dead; Writer of Lyric Verse Was 67|date=23 June 1965|work=New York Times|department=Obituary|page=41}}</ref>

The papers of Joseph Auslander and Audrey Wurdemann are held at the [[University of Miami]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://proust.library.miami.edu/findingaids/?p=creators/creator&id=360 |title=Auslander, Joseph and Audrey Wurdemann &#124; University of Miami Finding Aids |publisher=Proust.library.miami.edu |accessdate=2013-10-26}}</ref> Additional Auslander papers are held by The [[Grolier Club]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.grolierclub.org/default.aspx?p=v35ListDocument&ID=755370852&listid=11461&listitemid=122558&ssid=322454&dpageid=&listname=|title=Finding Aids - The Grolier Club 2018|website=www.grolierclub.org|access-date=2019-04-15}}</ref>

==Works==
*''Sunrise Trumpets'', Harper, 1924 
*''Cyclop's Eye'', Harper & brothers, 1926
*''Historia amoris mea'', [[Harold Vinal]], 1927 
*''Letters to Women'', Harper & brothers, 1929
*''Hell in Harness'', Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1929
*''No Traveller Returns: A Book of Poems'', Harper & brothers, 1935
*{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qHU5qtBg97IC&q=Joseph+Auslander|title=More Than Bread: A Book of Poems|publisher=Macmillan company|year=1936|isbn=9781417995660}}; Kessinger Publishing, 2004, {{ISBN|9781417995660}} 
*''Riders at the Gate'', The Macmillan co., 1938
*''The Unconquerables: Salutes to the Undying Spirit of the Nazi-Occupied Countries'', Saturday Evening Post, 1941
*[https://books.google.com/books?id=bk8EAAAAMBAJ&dq=Joseph+Auslander&pg=PA40 "Four Sonnets on the Eve of Invasion"], ''Life'', May 22, 1944. p.&nbsp;40
*(Joseph Auslander; Audrey Wurdemann) ''My Uncle Jan,: A Novel'', Longmans, Green and Company, 1948
*''The Islanders'', Longmans, Green, 1951

==References==
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==Other sources==
* {{cite web | title=Poet Laureate Timeline: 1953–1960 | url=https://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate.html | publisher=Library of Congress | year=2008 | accessdate=2008-12-19}}

==External links==
* {{LCAuth|n50028874|Joseph Auslander|33|}}

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