Marie Howe

Marie Howe
Born (1950-10-18) October 18, 1950
OccupationPoet, Professor
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Windsor (B.A.)
Columbia University (M.F.A)
GenrePoetry
Notable works
  • The Good Thief (1988)
  • What the Living Do (1998)
  • The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008)
  • Magdalene (2017)
  • New and Selected Poems (2024)
  • What the Earth Seemed to Say (2024)
Notable awards
ChildrenGrace Inan Howe
Poet Laureate of New York
In office
2012–2014
Preceded byJean Valentine
Succeeded byYusef Komunyakaa
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Website
www.mariehowe.com

Marie Howe (born 1950) is an American poet. Howe served as New York Poet Laureate from 2012–2016. She is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Poet-in-Residence at The Cathedral of St John the Divine. Throughout her career, she has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

In 1987 her debut collection The Good Thief was selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series. Her subsequent collections include What the Living Do (1997), The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008), and Magdalene (2017), which was Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry. In 2024 W. W. Norton & Company published her New & Selected Poems, while Bloodaxe Books published its UK companion, What the Earth Seemed to Say, to critical acclaim.