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EPISODE · Sep 7, 2026 · 26 MIN

Breaking Form Selects: Marie Howe (A Summer Poetry Salon)

from Breaking Form: a Poetry and Culture Podcast · host Aaron Smith and James Allen Hall

Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Marie Howe. Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.  Notes:Marie Howe was born in Rochester, New York in October 1950 (she's a Libra!). She earned an MFA from Columbia University before publishing The Good Thief (1988, chosen by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series); What the Living Do (Norton, 1997), a book that centers other brother John's death from AIDS-related illness; The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008); Magdalene (2017); and New and Selected Poems (2024), which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Howe has received fellowships from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She was the Poet Laureate of New York State from 2012 to 2014. She is the poet in residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Visit Marie Howe's website: http://www.mariehowe.com/Listen to her talk on Poetry Unbound here and watch her comprehensive interview with Krista Tippett here (90 minutes).You can see her give a reading in 2020 here (27 min); or read her poem "The Gate" from What the Living Do here (1.5 min); or read from her book Magdalene here (~23 min).Read this 1997 interview with Howe conducted by Victoria Redel.

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Please enjoy this Summer Salon Series episode of Breaking Form Selects: Marie Howe. Support Breaking Form by reviewing the show on Apple Podcasts here. Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE is available from Bridwell Press. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books. Notes: Marie Howe was born in Rochester, New York in October 1950 (she's a Libra!). She earned an MFA from Columbia University before publishing The Good T...

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