Fanny Howe
Born	1940 Buffalo. New York
Occupation	Poet, novelist, and short story writer
Nationality	American
Notable award(s)	2005 Griffin Poetry Prize, 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Children	Danzy Senna, Lucien Quincy Senna, Maceo Senna
Relative(s)	Mary Manning, Susan Howe

Fanny Howe (born 1940 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She has written many novels in prose collection, and is the mother of novelist Danzy Senna. Her father was a lawyer and her Irish-born mother played in the Abbey Theatre of Dublin for some time. Howe is the recipient of the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize^[1] , presented annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. She is a sister of Susan Howe, also a poet.

Contents 1 Overview 2 Publications 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Overview

Howe has become (arguably) one of the most widely read of American experimental poets. She has also published several volumes of prose, including Lives of the Spirit/Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken (2005) and The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life (2003), a collection of essays. Several awards have been awarded to her, namely the 2001 Lenore Marshall and Poetry Prize, and the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize. She is currently a professor emerita of Writing and Literature at the University of California, San Diego.

Poet Michael Palmer commented: "Fanny Howe employs a sometimes fierce, always passionate, spareness in her lifelong parsing of the exchange between matter and spirit. Her work displays as well a political urgency, that is to say, a profound concern for social justice and for the soundness and fate of the polis, the "city on a hill". Writes Emerson, The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. Here's the luminous and incontrovertible proof."

Bewildered in Boston by Joshua Glenn states that "Fanny Howe isn't part of the local literary canon. But her seven novels about interracial love and utopian dreaming offer a rich social history of Boston in the 1960s and '70s."

[edit] Publications

Poetry

• Eggs (1970)
• The Amerindian Coastline Poem (1975)
• Poem from a Single Pallet (1980)
• Alsace-Lorraine (1982)
• For Erato: The Meaning of Life (1984)
• Robeson Street (Alice James Books, 1985)
• Introduction to the World (1986)
• The Lives of a Spirit (1987)
• The Vineyard (1988)
• [sic] (1988)
• The End (1992)
• The Quietist (1992)
• O'Clock (1995)
• One Crossed Out (1997)
• Forged (1999)
• Selected Poems (2000) (shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize)
• Gone (2003)
• Tis of Thee (2003)
• On the Ground (2004) (also shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize)
• The Lives of a Spirit/Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken (2005)
• The Lyrics (Graywolf Press, 2007)

Fiction

• Forty Whacks (1969)
• First Marriage (1974)
• Bronte Wilde (1976)
• Holy Smoke (1979)
• The White Slave (1980)
• In the Middle of Nowhere: A Novel (1984)
• The Deep North (1988)
• Famous Questions (1989)
• Saving History (1992)
• Nod (1998)
• Indivisible (2000)
• Economics: Stories (2002)
• Radical Love: 5 Novels (2006)

Young Adult Fiction

• The Blue Hills (1981)
• Yeah, But (1982)
• Radio City (1984)
• Taking Care (1985)
• Race of the Radical (1985)

Essays

• The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life (2003)
• The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation (2009)

[edit] References

1. ^ Fanny Howe and Ange Mlinko Receive Major Literary Awards from Poetry Foundation Howe received $100,000

[edit] External links

• Fanny Howe Informatarium
• Biography
• Fanny Howe Papers
• Griffin Poetry Prize biography, including audio and video clips
• Interview with Kenyon Review
• Fanny Howe page at Ploughshares includes links to Howe's contributions to Ploughshares that began in 1972 with an excerpt from an early novel. Since then she has been a consistent contibutor of poems, essays, and non-fiction. Howe was the guest-editor for an edition of Ploughshares in 1974, and has contributed to this journal as recently as 2004.
• Bewilderment a talk by Fanny Howe, with an excerpt here from a longer version presented 9/25/98 on the Poetics & Readings Series, sponsored by Small Press Traffic at New College, San Francisco. Bewilderment was collected in The Wedding Dress (2003)
• Fanny Howe Interviewed by Jennifer Moxley for info on Jennifer Moxley (link here)