Marie Howe

Marie Howe
Born 1950
Rochester, New York
Nationality American
Alma mater University of Windsor;
Genre Poetry
Notable awards Guggenheim Fellowship;
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Marie Howe (born 1950 Rochester, New York) is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (W.W. Norton, 2008). In August 2012 she was named the State Poet for New York.[1][2][3]

Early life

Howe is the eldest girl of nine children. She attended Sacred Heart Convent School and earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Windsor.[4]

Career

She worked briefly as a newspaper reporter in Rochester and as a high school English teacher in Massachusetts. Howe did not devote serious attention to writing poetry until she turned 30. At the suggestion of an instructor in a writers' workshop, Howe applied to and was accepted at Columbia University where she studied with Stanley Kunitz and received her M.F.A. in 1983.[5][6]

She has taught writing at Tufts University and Warren Wilson College. She is presently on the writing faculties at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and New York University.[7][8]

Her first book, The Good Thief, was selected by Margaret Atwood as the winner of the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series. In 1998, she published her best-known book of poems, What the Living Do; the title poem in the collection is a haunting lament for her brother with the plain-spoken last line: "I am living, I remember you."

Howe's brother John died of an AIDS-related illness in 1989. "John’s living and dying changed my aesthetic entirely," she has said.[9] In 1995, Howe co-edited, with Michael Klein, a collection of essays, letters, and stories entitled In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic.

Her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, and Harvard Review.[10] Her honors include National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim fellowships.[11][12]

Honors and awards

Published works

Poetry Collections

Anthologies

References

  1. ↑ "Capitol Confidential » Cuomo announces state author Alison Lurie, poet Marie Howe". Capitol Confidential. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  2. ↑ http://online.wsj.com/article/APa0444add860c4deda7f84febf0f54925.html
  3. ↑ "Blue Flower Arts". blueflowerarts.com. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  4. ↑ "Marie Howe". poetryfoundation.org. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  5. ↑ New York State Writers Institute > Writers Online: Vol. 6, No. 2, Spring 2002 Marie Howe Profile
  6. ↑ Sarah Lawrence College: MFA Writing Faculty > Marie Howe Bio
  7. ↑ "Marie Howe". slc.edu. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  8. ↑ "Marie Howe, Faculty of CWP - NYU". nyu.edu. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  9. ↑ "AGNI Online: Complexity of the Human Heart: A Conversation with Marie Howe by David Elliott". bu.edu. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  10. ↑ "Blue Flower Arts". blueflowerarts.com. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  11. ↑ http://www.arts.gov/pub/NEA_lit.pdf
  12. ↑ "Search Results". gf.org. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  13. ↑ "Marie Howe". jsgmf.org. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  14. ↑ National Endowment for the Arts: Forty Years of Supporting American Writers: Literature Fellowships

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