Marie Howe

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 it's UK companion, ''What the Earth Seemed to Say'', to critical acclaim. Provided by Wikipedia