Marie Howe

Marie Howe is the author of four volumes of poetry: Magdalene: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2017), The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (Norton, 2009), What the Living Do (W. W. Norton, 1999), and The Good Thief (Persea, 1988). She is also the coeditor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, AGNI, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, The Partisan Review, and elsewhere. She is a contributing editor of AGNI. (updated 4/2022)

Howe’s AGNI poem “Menses” won a Pushcart Prize and is reprinted in the 1988 anthology.

Read “The Complexity of the Human Heart: A Conversation with Marie Howe” by David Elliott in AGNI Online.