Fan Mayhall Gates Literary Reading with Marie Howe

Public Reading

Wednesday, May 7, 7:30 p.m.

Collegium, Student Union Building

Seattle Pacific University

Sponsored by the SPU English Department

On May 7, poet and winner of the National Poetry Series Marie Howe will give the Fan Mayhall Gates Literary Reading in the Collegium at SPU.

Howe’s poetry explores the themes of relationship, attachment, and loss. Says Stanley Kunitz, “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.”

Marie Howe is the author of two volumes of poetry, The Good Thief, andWhat the Living Do. Her third volume of poetry, Kingdom Of Ordinary Time is forthcoming. Howe has 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, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. Currently, Howe teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia, and New York University.

This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 206.281.2988.

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