Poetry Book Club: Marie Howe's New and Selected Poems

Wed Dec 10 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC-05:00

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Poetry Book Club: Marie Howe's New and Selected Poems
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Doug Knowlton leads a discussion of this collection that was awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
About this Event

This monthly book club led by Doug Knowlton is for those who like to read and discuss poetry. It celebrates the integral role of poets and poetry in life and literature. December's selection is MARIE HOWE'S NEW AND SELECTED POEMS.

We meet in person in the loft of our store in The Mark building at 117 South Pineapple Avenue. The cost is your purchase of the book ($17.99), which can be picked up at Bookstore1 any time before our meeting.


ABOUT THE BOOK:

Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for PoetryOne of NPR's Books We Love in 2024 and a California Review of Books Best Poetry of 2024An indispensable collection of more than four decades of profound, luminous poetry from acclaimed poet Marie Howe.

Characterized by “a radical simplicity and seriousness of purpose, along with a fearless interest in autobiography and its tragedies and redemptions” (Matthew Zapruder, New York Times Magazine), Marie Howe’s poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. This essential volume draws from each of Howe’s four previous collections—including What the Living Do(1997), a haunting archive of personal loss, and the National Book Award–longlisted Magdalene (2017), a spiritual and sensual exploration of contemporary womanhood—and contains twenty new poems. Whether speaking in the voice of the goddess Persephone or thinking about aging while walking the dog, Howe is “a light-bearer, an extraordinary poet of our human sorrow and ordinary joy” (Dorianne Lau


ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Marie Howe is the former poet laureate of New York. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets, she teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.


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Bookstore1Sarasota, 117 S. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota, United States

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