Fanny Howe
FANNY HOWE is part of a long line of poets who care deeply about exploring how and where the inner life intersects with the outer world. That inner life is spiritual, emotional, introspective and contemplative, and intimately interwoven with the vagaries of the ever changing world. Howe doesn’t rest on our common assumptions regarding the permanence of personality. Exploring the dynamic relationship between the endlessly evolving self and the ever-changing world it constantly interacts with is at the center of many of her poems. Howe’s recent collections of poetry include On the Ground (2004), Gone (2003), Selected Poems (2000), Forged (1999), Q (1998), One Crossed Out (1997), O’Clock (1995), and The End (1992). She is also the author of several novels and prose collections, most recently The Lives of a Spirit / Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken (2005) and Nod (1998). She has won the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
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Schedule
THURSDAY
12:30-1:45pm
Reading and Conversation
Fanny Howe, Gregory Orr, Gregory Pardlo
Victoria Theater
3:30-4:30
Conversation: Mirror Blossom Urn Collage
Eduardo C. Corral, Terrance Hayes, Fanny Howe, Ada Limón
First Peddie Baptist Memorial Church
7:30-10:00
POETRY SAMPLER
Richard Blanco, Eavan Boland, Henri Cole, Sharon Dolin, Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, Juan Felipe Herrera, Jane Hirshfield, Fanny Howe, Kurtis Lamkin, Dorianne Laux, Ada Limón, Thomas Lux, Rachel McKibbens, Taylor Mali, Joseph Millar, Idra Novey, Gregory Orr, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Patricia Smith, Arthur Sze, Larissa Szporluk, Natasha Trethewey, C.K. Williams, Raúl Zurita
Prudential Hall
FRIDAY
10:50-11:50am
Conversation: Tell All the Truth, But Tell It Slant
Terrance Hayes, Fanny Howe, Ada Limón, Larissa Szporluk
First Peddie Baptist Memorial Church
12:10-1:10pm
Festival Poet Readings
Dan Bellm, Terrance Hayes, Fanny Howe, Idra Novey, Gregory Pardlo
North Star Academy Great Room
6:30-10:00pm
Readings & Music
Terrance Hayes, Thomas Lux, Fanny Howe, Jane Hirshfield, Kurtis Lamkin
Prudential Hall
SATURDAY
9:00-10:10
Conversation: Mirror Blossom Urn Collage
Henri Cole, Terrance Hayes, Fanny Howe, Larissa Szporluk
Victoria Theater
10:30-11:40
Festival Poets Reading
Brian Barker, Fanny Howe, Taylor Mali
Trinity & St. Philip’s Cathedral
1:30-2:40
Conversation: On Craft
Fanny Howe
Newark Museum
SUNDAY
10:30-11:40
Festival Poet Readings
Jane Hirshfield, Fanny Howe, Salgado Maranhão, C. K. Williams
Prudential Hall
12:00-1:10
Conversation: When Politics Is Personal
Nikky Finney, Juan Felipe Herrera, Fanny Howe, Raúl Zurita
Victoria Theater