Writers at Work Program Sponsors Reading and Book Signing with Marie Howe

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – (March 12, 2010) –Writers at Work presents Marie Howe, Thursday, March 25, at 7:30 p.m., Miller Forum, Muhlenberg College. There will be a reading followed by a book signing. This event is free and open to the public.

Howe is the author of three volumes of poetry, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008); The Good Thief (1998); and What the Living Do (1997), and is the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic(1994). Stanley Kunitz, an acclaimed poet, selected Howe for a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets. She has, in addition, been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughsahres, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. Currently, Howe teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia, and New York University.

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