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Marie Howe
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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.

AGNI has published the following work:

Reviews
Jane Kenyon’s Constance
AGNI 41 Print Only
Poetry
Mary’s Argument
AGNI 26 Print Only
Poetry
The Split
AGNI 24 and 25 Print Only
Poetry
Menses
AGNI 24 and 25 Print Only
Poetry
Song of the Spinster
AGNI 24 and 25 Print Only
Poetry
Gretel, from a Sudden Clearing
AGNI 24 and 25 AGNI 56 Mysteries Nature Relationships
Poetry
Retribution
AGNI 22 Print Only
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