The Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award was established in 1994 by The Formalist, a poetry magazine founded by William Baer.
Marilyn L. Taylor’s poems have been published in numbers of anthologies and journals, that have included The American Scholar, Smartish Pace, The Formalist, Poetry, and the Poetry’s 90th Anniversary Anthology.
In this it is possible to see some connection with other painters associated with the School of London, as there is a comparison to be made between the coupling of the formalist interest in painting as a medium alongside a direct engagement with aspects of the real world in Bramham and artists such as Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach.