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February 10, 2015

Poet Marie Howe Reads with Seniors in the Creative Writing Program

Poet Marie Howe and five seniors in the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Program in Creative Writing at Princeton University will read from their work on Friday, February 20 at Labyrinth Books. The reading is part of the Emerging Writers Reading Series, which showcases senior thesis students of the Program in Creative Writing with established writers as special guests. Featuring student writers Evan Coles, Cosette Gonzales, Filipa Ioannou, Yessica Martinez, and Milena Phan, the reading begins at 6:00 p.m and is free and open to the public. Labyrinth Books is located at 122 Nassau Street.

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Marie Howe is the 2012-2014 Poet Laureate of New York State and an award-winning author of three volumes of poetry. Her most recent book, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008), was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Other titles include What the Living Do (1997), which was praised by Publishers Weekly as one of the five best poetry collections of the year, and The Good Thief (1988), selected by Margaret Atwood for the 1987 National Poetry Series. Howe also co-edited (with Michael Klein) the essay anthology, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994).

Having earned her M.F.A. from Columbia University in 1983, Howe was chosen by Stanley Kunitz for the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets in 1988, with Kunitz referring to her poetry as “luminous, intense, and eloquent, rooted in an abundant inner life.” She was a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and the Fine Arts Work Center, and she has also been the recipient of Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. Howe teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and New York University.

The four seniors, who are pursuing certificates in Creative Writing in addition to their major areas of study, will read from their senior thesis projects. Each is currently working on a novel, a screenplay, translations, or a collection of poems or short stories as part of their creative thesis for the certificate under the guidance of today’s most respected practicing writers who serve on the Program in Creative Writing faculty: Jeffrey Eugenides, Chang-rae Lee, Paul Muldoon, Joyce Carol Oates, James Richardson, Tracy K. Smith, Susan Wheeler, and Edmund White.

The series, hosted by seniors in the Program, is intended to present a public showcase for the work of their peers and to invite professional writers by whom the students have been inspired.

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