Celebration of Marie Howe’s New and Selected Poems

The Harold Clurman Poetry Reading Series presents
A Celebration of Marie Howe’s New and Selected Poems
Wednesday, September 25th, 2024 at 7:00pm
Live and In-Person at the Center

This event is free and open to the public.

MARIE HOWE is the author of New and Selected Poems, (W.W. Norton 2024.) which includes poems from her four previous books. From 2012-2014, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State. She is the poet in residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Characterized by “a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions” (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe’s poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. New and Selected Poems draws from each of Howe’s four previous collections―including What the Living Do (1997), a haunting archive of personal loss, and the National Book Award–longlisted Magdalene (2017), a spiritual and sensual exploration of contemporary womanhood―and contains twenty new poems. Whether speaking in the voice of the goddess Persephone or thinking about aging while walking the dog, Howe is “a light-bearer, an extraordinary poet of our human sorrow and ordinary joy” (Dorianne Laux).