17 Facts About Susan Howe

Susan Howe was born on June 10,1937 and is an American poet, scholar, essayist, and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among other poetry movements.

Susan Howe's work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre.

Susan Howe's work contains lyrical echoes of sound, and yet is not pinned down by a consistent metrical pattern or a conventional poetic rhyme scheme.

Susan Howe is the recipient of the 2017 Robert Frost Medal awarded by the Poetry Society of America, the recipient of the 2011 Bollingen Prize in American Poetry, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Susan Howe was born on June 10,1937 in Boston, Massachusetts.

Susan Howe's mother, Mary Manning, was an Irish playwright and acted for Dublin's Gate Theatre.

Susan Howe's father Mark DeWolfe Howe, was a professor at Harvard Law School and was the official biographer of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes.

Susan Howe's aunt was Helen Howe, a monologuist and novelist.

Susan Howe has two sisters, Helen Howe Braider and poet Fanny Howe.

Susan Howe graduated from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts in 1961.

Susan Howe was married to her second husband, sculptor David von Schlegell, until his death.

Susan Howe began publishing poetry with Hinge Picture in 1974 and was initially received as a part of the amorphous grouping of experimental writers known as the language poets-writers such as Charles Bernstein, Bruce Andrews, Lyn Hejinian, Carla Harryman, Barrett Watten, and Ron Silliman.

Susan Howe's work has appeared in numerous anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry anthology In the American Tree, and The Norton Anthology of Postmodern Poetry.

In 2003, Susan Howe started collaborating with experimental musician David Grubbs.

Recently, Susan Howe has held the following positions: Distinguished Fellow, Stanford Institute of the Humanities; faculty, Princeton University, University of Chicago, University of Utah, and Wesleyan University.

Susan Howe was awarded with the American Book Awards organized by the Before Columbus Foundation in both 1981 and 1986.

In 2011, Susan Howe was awarded the Yale Bollingen Prize in American Poetry.