Marie Howe, the current New York State Poet, is the author of three volumes of poetry:
The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008);
The Good Thief (1988); and
What the Living Do (1998), and is the co-editor of a book of essays,
In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic
(1994). Stanley Kunitz selected Howe for a Lavan Younger Poets Prize
from the American Academy of Poets. She has, in addition, been a fellow
at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA
and Guggenheim fellowships. Her poems have appeared in
The New Yorker,
The Atlantic,
Poetry,
Agni,
Ploughshares,
Harvard Review, and
The
Partisan Review, among others.
