Marie Howe won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for her book New and Selected Poems, which includes poems from her four previous books.

From 2012-2014, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State, and she has been teaching poetry for more than 30 years. She is the poet in residence at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Marie has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

What People are Saying About Marie Howe

“Marie Howe’s poetry is luminous, intense, and eloquent, rooted in an abundant inner life. 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.”     
—Stanley Kunitz