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Susan Howe is the author of several poetry collections, including Debths (New Directions, 2017). She served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2006.
Jul 31, 2017 · Books. Susan Howe’s Patchwork Poems. Howe’s melding of memoir, collage, and New England history has produced one of the great careers in American poetry. By Dan Chiasson. July 31, 2017. Howe...
Susan Howe, The Art of Poetry No. 97. Interviewed by Maureen N. McLane. Issue 203, Winter 2012. For the past four decades, Susan Howe’s books have explored the word as shape, sound, and image.
May 23, 2022 · One of the preeminent poets of her generation, Susan Howe is known for innovative verse that crosses genres and disciplines in its theoretical underpinnings and approach to history. Layered and allusive, her work draws on early American history and primary documents, weaving quotation and image...
Susan Howe is an American poet, scholar, essayist, and critic, who has been closely associated with the Language poets, among other poetry movements. Her work is often classified as Postmodern because it expands traditional notions of genre.
Howe is the author of the poetry collections Salt (2013) and Stone Spirits (1997), which won the Charles Redd Center Publication Prize and the Association for Mormon Letters Award in Poetry. Her poetry has been anthologized in Great and Peculiar Beauty: A Utah Reader (1995) and Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems (1989).
Susan Howe was born to Irish-American parents in Boston. She was educated as a painter at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and exhibited her work in several group shows in New York. In the course of working on collages and then on performance pieces, she became interested in poetry and gradually made writing her career.
