"This morning I stumbled upon the poetry of Marie Howe, and once again I'm humbled by the power of words on a page, and a writer's ability to bestow meaning to feelings that would otherwise remain forever trapped inside me. In a recent podcast interview, the poet Marie Howe was speaking of the power of words to reveal the human condition, and how the older she gets, the more of herself she unmasks through her writing. She later said, 'to be able to move through your life transparently would be a relief.'"
More in the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeanpaul-bedard/in-the-company-of-words-and-strangers_b_5762190.html
Reigning New York State Poet Marie Howe visits the Writers Institute on Tuesday, October 21st with fellow poets Edward Hirsch and Kimiko Hahn.
For a full schedule of events, visit our webpage: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/#.VA26El_D_s1
For more about NY State Poet Marie Howe: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/howe_marie12.html
Showing posts with label poet laureate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label poet laureate. Show all posts
Monday, September 8, 2014
NYS Poet Marie Howe in the Huffington Post
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Is Poetry Dead?
(Photo in the NY Times: Our NYS Poet Marie Howe at the Poetry in Motion Springfest at Grand Central Terminal)
Marie Howe, NYS Poet under the auspices of the NYS Writers Institute, appears in a New York Times feature article on poets laureate across the nation, Is Poetry Dead? Not if 45 Official Laureates are Any Indication...
"Other laureates have taken the tradition of occasional poetry in a more personalized direction. As part of the Poetry in Motion project’s Springfest, an event held in Grand Central Terminal in April, Marie Howe, the New York State laureate, organized The Poet Is In, a project inspired by Lucy Van Pelt’s advice booth in 'Peanuts.'”
“'The academic establishment, which I’m very much part of, has this idea of a poem as a monument, and I bow to that idea,' Ms. Howe said. 'But there are poems that are valuable without being monuments.'”
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/28/arts/poet-laureates-multiply-but-job-requirements-vary-widely.html Read More......
Friday, May 2, 2014
NY State "Favorite Poem" Essay Winners Announced
Winners of the First New York State “Poetry Unites – My Favorite Poem” Contest
Announced
Marie Howe, State Poet of
the State of New York under the auspices of the NYS Writers Institute and Corinne Evens, a philanthropist, in coordination with
the Academy of American Poets, the New York State Writers Institute, and the
New York State Office of Cultural Education, are pleased to announce the winners
of the 2014 Poetry Unites contest for the best short essay about a favorite
poem. The winners of the contest, which was open to all New York State
residents, are in alphabetical order:
Marita Boulos, literacy program coordinator from Rouse's Point,
Clinton County, NY, for her straightforward and eloquent prose that candidly
brings John Donne’s “Song” into her village.
Rosanna Oh, from Jericho, Long Island, a student, for her deeply
personal response to the humility and precision in Robert Hayden’s “Those
Winter Sundays.”
Matthew Powers, a teacher from Syracuse, NY, for the way he
realistically invokes the incantatory and communal nature of poetry in Mark
Strand’s “Lines for Winter.”
Paul White a healthcare provider from Cheektowaga, NY, for
recognizing the talismanic power and healing capacity of poetry in David
Ignatow’s “Sunday at the State Hospital.”
The winners will each be
featured in short film profiles directed by Ewa Zadrzynska, which will be
posted on Poets.org as well as the State Library, and NYS Writers Institute’s websites,
and may be broadcast by public television across the United States. They will
be awarded a Certificate of Merit and invited to a celebratory film screening
on October 18, 2014 in NYC.
The Jury selection members
included:
Marie Howe, State Poet of
the State of New York, 2012-2014;
Jeffrey Cannel, Deputy
Commissioner, New York State Office of Cultural Education;
Nina Darnton, Author;
Donald Faulkner,
Director, New York State Writers Institute;
Edward Hirsch, Poet and
Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets;
Robert Pinsky, Poet,
former US Poet Laureate and the Founder of Favorite Poem Project;
Ewa Zadrzynska, Writer
and Filmmaker.
Read More......
Monday, April 28, 2014
NYC Haikus in the NY Times
Marie Howe, NY State Poet under the auspices of the NYS Writers Institute, selected haikus about New York City in a National Poetry Month contest in the New York Times.
Here are two entries:
On the 6 to Spring
two cops help a tourist whose
map is upside down
Beware the puddle
of indeterminate depth
that swallows boots whole
More about Marie: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/howe_marie12.html Read More......
Tuesday, January 21, 2014
New York State sponsors Poetry Unites writing contest
Open to all New York State residents for the
best short essay about a favorite poem
best short essay about a favorite poem
After a successful six-year run in Europe, the Poetry Unites
contest, inspired by Robert Pinsky's Favorite Poem project, is coming
to New
York State.
Marie Howe, the New York State Poet under the
sponsorship of the New York State Writers Institute, and Corinne Evens,
a philanthropist, in co-ordination with the Academy of American Poets, the
New York State Writers Institute, and the New York State Office of
Cultural Education, are pleased to announce a contest for the best short
essay about a favorite poem. The contest is open to all New York State
residents.
Read More......
Friday, September 13, 2013
Two Poets Laureate in Conversation this Tuesday 9/17
Marie Howe, New York State Poet (2012-2014) and Sydney Lea, Vermont Poet Laureate (2011-2014) will read from their work and discuss the role of poetry in society on Tuesday, September 17, 2013 at 8:00 p.m. in the Huxley Theatre, NYS Museum, Cultural Education Center in downtown Albany. Earlier that same day at 4:15 p.m., the poets will present an informal seminar in the Standish Room, Science Library, on the University at Albany uptown campus. The events are free and open to the public, and are cosponsored by the New York State Writers Institute and Friends of the New York State Library.
Marie Howe and Sydney Lea, reigning state poets of New York and Vermont, will present a joint reading and discuss the role of poetry in today's society.
Appointed State Poet (2012 – 2014) by Governor Andrew Cuomo under the auspices of the NYS Writers Institute, Marie Howe is the author of three collections of poetry: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008), What the Living Do (1997), and The Good Thief (1988), which was selected by Margaret Atwood for the National Poetry Series. The Rochester native and New York City resident is also the past recipient of the Lavan Younger Poets Prize of the American Academy of Poets. In 1995, she coedited the bestselling anthology, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (with Michael Klein), which helped many AIDS victims "find their voices" as poets and storytellers. She currently teaches at NYU where she is launching a Fall 2013 course entitled "Poetry Everywhere," an immersive production class which seeks to put poetry in unexpected New York City public spaces.
Howe is widely admired for poetry that seeks answers to metaphysical questions in ordinary day-to-day experience. In her work, little incidents and inconsequential memories help to shed light on the nature of the soul and the self, as well as the meaning of life, death, love, pain, hope, despair, sin, virtue, solitude, community, impermanence and the eternal. Playwright Eve Ensler said of her most recent collection, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, "These poems made me gasp. Each one a revelation, a lifeline, a domestic galaxy. This is the poetry of our times, a guide to living on the brink of the mystical and the mundane."
Appointed Poet Laureate by Governor Peter Shumlin under the auspices of the Vermont Arts Council, Sydney Lea is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including I Was Thinking of Beauty (2013); Growing Old in Poetry: Two Poets, Two Lives (with Delaware Poet Laureate Fleda Brown, 2013); Pursuit of a Wound (2000), a Pulitzer Prize finalist; To the Bone: New and Selected Poems (1996), a co-winner of the Poet's Prize; and Prayer for the Little City (1991). The American Book Review said of To the Bone, "It's past time that this poet's memorable best work should be known and praised and analyzed and loved as well as Frost's is."
Much of his work focuses on the mystery of the natural world and the physical details of life in a rural setting. He recently published the essay collection, A North Country Life: Tales of Woodsmen, Waters, and Wildlife (2013). The Wall Street Journal reviewer said, "Sydney Lea is a fisherman, a hunter, a philosopher, a trainer of bird dogs, an interpreter of the past and a collector of stories. This abundance of experience shows up to good effect.... He writes memorably. His stories ring true."
The founder and long-time editor of the influential literary magazine, The New England Review, Lea is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim, Rockefeller, and Fulbright Foundations.
Lea is a dedicated environmental activist and serves currently as President of Downeast Lakes Land Trust, an organization dedicated to creating a million-acre wildlife preserve on the border between Maine and the province of New Brunswick. He also serves as President/Treasurer of the adult literacy organization, Central Vermont Adult Basic Education.
For additional information, contact the Writers Institute at 518-442-5620 or online at http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst.
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Marie Howe's Mary Magdalene Poem
Here's one of the best loved poems by official New York State Poet Marie Howe, who visits this coming Tuesday, 9/17. Like many of Howe's poems, it is inspired by Christian tradition and Catholic experience:
MAGDALENE–THE SEVEN DEVILS
by Marie Howe“Mary, called Magdalene, from whom seven devils had been cast out” —Luke 8:2.
The first was that I was very busy.
The second — I was different from you: whatever happened to you could not happen to me, not like that.
The third — I worried.
The fourth – envy, disguised as compassion.
The fifth was that I refused to consider the quality of life of the aphid,
The aphid disgusted me. But I couldn’t stop thinking about it.
The mosquito too – its face. And the ant – its bifurcated body.
Poem continues on the eclectic spirituality website, Patheos, which Newsweek in 2011 called one of "21 Ways To Be Smarter in 2011". Read the rest of the poem: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/michaboyett/2012/04/poem-a-day-friday-marie-howe/
Read more about Marie Howe's upcoming visit to UAlbany here: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/howe_lea13.html Read More......
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Poems About Divorce-- Sharon Olds
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/video/2013/jan/17/sharon-olds-life-art-video
The poems in the book, which also received the UK's T. S. Eliot prize, were written 15 years earlier. Olds delayed publishing them to protect the sensitivities of her children. Read More......
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Marie Howe comments on Sharon Olds
Our reigning State Poet, Marie Howe, comments (officially) on Sharon Olds' winning the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Stag's Leap:
"Sharon olds has
been writing life altering poems so deeply and well and so long it's not
possible to imagine american poetry without her."
(Sent from her iPhone)
Monday, April 15, 2013
Sharon Olds Wins Pulitzer for Poetry!
Sharon Olds, who served as New York State Poet Laureate under our sponsorship (1998-2000), has just received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Stag's Leap.
Writers Institute State Poet page for Sharon Olds: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/olds.html
"Like Whitman, Ms. Olds sings the body in celebration of a power stronger than political oppression." --New York Times
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Her Brother's Death, a Rebirth
Howe, who helped many find their voice in poetry during the AIDS epidemic, will be inaugurated as New York's official State Poet tomorrow Sept. 20th at 8PM at Page Hall.
Here is a poem about her brother's death, one of many, from her bestselling collection, What the Living Do (1997):
I had no idea that the gate I
would step through
to finally enter this world
would be the space my
brother's body made. He was
a little taller than me: a
young man
but grown, himself by then,
done at twenty-eight, having
folded every sheet,
rinsed every glass he would
ever rinse under the cold
and running water.
This is what you have been
waiting for, he used to say to me.
And I'd say, What?
And he'd say, This—holding up
my cheese and mustard sandwich.
And I'd say, What?
And he'd say, This, sort of
looking around.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Marie Howe in the TU
"Marie Howe joins a long line of distinguished poets who have held the unpaid post, including John Ashbery, Sharon Olds, Audre Lorde, Robert Creeley and Stanley Kunitz. New York's poet and author laureates promote poetry and fiction writing during their two-year terms by giving readings and talks within the state."
More on Marie Howe here. Read More......
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