Pulitzer Prize winning poet Marie Howe shares collection, New and Selected Poems on March 30, 2026
Event is part of the 2025/2026 Inprint Brown Reading Series
Inprint, Houston’s premier literary arts nonprofit organization, presents Marie Howe, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, on Monday, March 30, 2026, 7:30 pm as part of the 2025/2026 Inprint Margarett Root Brown Reading Series.
The event will be held at Congregation Emanu El, 1500 Sunset Boulevard, Houston 77005. Howe will read from and discuss her latest poetry collection New and Selected Poems with renowned poet/memoirist and University of Houston Creative Writing Program professor Nick Flynn, followed by a book signing in the lobby.
Marie Howe, according to Nick Flynn, “has always come as close as any poet since Rilke to touching eternity, simply by stretching out her hand and believing that something exists beyond her grasp, beyond her knowing.” Stanley Kunitz, with whom she studied, calls her poetry “luminous, intense, and eloquent, rooted in an abundant inner life.” Howe sees her own work as a form of confession, conversation, and prayer. A former Poet Laureate of New York State, she is the author of five volumes of poetry and co-editor of the essay collection In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Academy of American Poets.
Howe joins Inprint with her latest book New and Selected Poems, which won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. This 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.
Her poetry transforms penetrating observations of everyday life into sacred, humane miracles. Howe’s New and Selected Poems was named one of NPR’s “Books We Love in 2024,” and Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, called it “a necessary compilation for times of crisis.”
General admission tickets are $5 and are on sale now on the Inprint website. Free tickets for students and senior citizens are available upon request. Books will be on sale at a discount at the event through Brazos Bookstore. For more information, visit inprint.org or call 713.521.2026.\
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