13 Facts About Marie Howe

Marie Howe is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Poet-in-Residence at The Cathedral of St John the Divine.

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Marie Howe worked briefly as a newspaper reporter in Rochester and as a high school English teacher in Massachusetts.

Marie Howe did not devote serious attention to writing poetry until she turned 30.

Marie Howe has taught writing at Tufts University and Warren Wilson College.

Marie Howe is presently on the writing faculties at Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College, and New York University.

In 1995, Marie 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.

Marie Howe's poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, and Harvard Review.

Marie Howe's honors include National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim fellowships.

In January 2018, Marie Howe was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Marie Howe is praised for her poetry which captures the metaphysical and spiritual dimensions of everyday life.

Marie Howe's work explores the nature of the soul and the self through literary themes of life, death, love, pain, hope, despair, sin, virtue, solitude, community, impermanence, and the eternal.

In 2008, Marie Howe distanced herself from the personal narrative and returned to the spiritual style in The Kingdom of Ordinary Time.