mythical allusions. Margaret Atwood, who chose this book for the National Poetry Series, praised Howe’s “poems of obsession that transcend their own dark roots.” Additionally, Stanley Kunitz noted, “Her long, deep-breathing lines address the mysteries of flesh and spirit, in terms accessible only to a woman who is very much of our time and yet still in touch with the sacred.” Such an esteemed review justified the selection of The Good Thief for the Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets. A year after the publication of her first poetry book (1989), Howe’s brother John died from AIDS. According to Howe in an AGNI interview, “John’s living and dying changed my aesthetic completely.” Consequently in 1997, she published a second collection, What the Living Do, as an elegy for John which reflected a new style. Stripped of metaphors, her writing was described as “a transparent, accessible documentary of loss” by the Poetry of Foundation. In 2008, Howe distanced herself from the personal narrative and returned to the spiritual style in The Kingdom of Ordinary Time. This is most representative of Howe’s style now, a balance between the ordinary and unordinary. It is best put by playwright Eve Ensler, who describes her poems as “a guide to living on the brink of the mystical and the mundane.” Honors and awards 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship 1992 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 2015 Academy of American Poets Fellowship 2017 Robert Creeley Award Published works Poetry Collections The Good Thief (Persea Books, 1988) Anthologies In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic, (ed., with Michael Klein, Persea Books, 1995) References Sources Library of Congress Online Catalog > Marie Howe External links Marie Howe's Official Website Author's Booking Agency > Blue Flower Arts > Marie Howe Author Page Marie Howe: Poems and Profile on Poets.org Poem: The New Yorker > January 14, 2008 > The Star Market by Marie Howe Poem: A Little Poetry > How Some of It Happened by Marie Howe Personal Essay: O: The Oprah Magazine > Memoir by Marie Howe: Not to Look Away Video: PBS > Poetry Everywhere > Marie Howe Reading The Gate Interview: Bomb Magazine > #61, Fall 1997 > Marie Howe Interviewed by Victoria Redel Poet Marie Howe On 'What The Living Do' After Loss, NPR, October 19, 2011 1950 births Living people Sarah Lawrence College faculty New York University