Last Fall, Marie Howe delivered a beautiful and thought-provoking Holmes Lecture at Princeton, entitled “No Not Nothing Never: Interruption, Contradiction and Negation as a Way To Push Open the Door You Didn’t Know Was There,” a video recording of which can be viewed here.

This Spring, Princeton undergraduates are working with Marie Howe in her advanced poetry workshop in the Creative Writing Program at The Lewis Center.

Marie Howe is the 2012-2014 Poet Laureate of New York State and an award-winning author of three volumes of poetry. Her most recent book, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2009) was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her other collections of poetry include What the Living Do (1998), which was praised by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the five best poetry collections of the year, and The Good Thief (Persea, 1988), which was selected by Margaret Atwood for the 1987 National Poetry Series. She was also awarded the 2015 Academy of American Poets Fellowship. Her other awards include grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Howe has taught writing at Tufts University and Dartmouth College and is currently teaching at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Columbia University.