Please join the Department of English and Creative Writing for the Cleopatra Mathis Poetry and Prose Series with a reading by Marie Howe on Thursday, October 23, 2025 at 4:30 p.m. in Sanborn Library. There will be a reading, Q&A, and book signing. Books will be available for purchase on site. Email english.department@dartmouth.edu with questions or access needs.

Marie Howe is the author of five volumes of poetry, New and Selected Poems, which won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Magdalene: Poems; The Kingdom of Ordinary Time; The Good Thief; and What the Living Do, and she is the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. She has been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, and Stanley Kunitz selected Howe for a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets. In 2015, she received the Academy of American Poets Poetry Fellowship, and from 2012-2014, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State.