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Marie Howe

Marie Howe is the former poet laureate of New York. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets, she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.

Marie Howe

Awards

Winner — Pulitzer Prize, 2025

Books by Marie Howe

What the Living Do: Poems
Marie Howe
Paperback, 1999
"A deeply beautiful book, with the fierce galloping pace of a great novel."—Liz Rosenberg Boston Globe
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems
Marie Howe
Paperback, 2009
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.”—Elizabeth Berg
Magdalene: Poems
Marie Howe
Paperback, 2018
“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”—Michael Cunningham
What the Living Do: Poems
Marie Howe
E Book, 1999
"A deeply beautiful book, with the fierce galloping pace of a great novel."—Liz Rosenberg Boston Globe
Magdalene: Poems
Marie Howe
E Book, 2017
“Gorgeous, ferocious, lacerating, sexy, and profoundly compassionate.”—Michael Cunningham
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time: Poems
Marie Howe
E Book, 2013
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize: “Thought-provoking, poignant, brutal, amusing, and always beautiful.”—Elizabeth Berg
New and Selected Poems
Marie Howe
Hardback, 2024
Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

One of NPR's Books We Love in 2024 and a California Review of Books Best Poetry of 2024

An indispensable collection of more than four decades of...
New and Selected Poems
Marie Howe
E Book
New and Selected Poems
Marie Howe
Paperback, 2025