Marie Howe

Marie Howe is an American poet whose debut, The Good Thief, was selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series in 1987. Her later collections include What the Living Do (1997), The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008), and Magdalene (2017), which was longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry. Howe served as New York Poet Laureate from 2012 to 2016 and is currently a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Her New & Selected Poems appeared in 2024.