An Intimate Evening with Marie Howe September 24, 2008

Village Zendo Benefit
Readings Series Presents
An Intimate Evening with Marie Howe

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
7:15—8:30 pm
Optional Zen meditation and instruction begins at 5:30 pm

We welcome you to this intimate reading series that brings together some of the best contemporary writers and poets with the Village Zendo. The Reading Series is held once a month on Wednesday evenings. The series is curated by Koshin Paley Ellison.

"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."
—Stanley Kunitz

Marie Howe is the author of two volumes of poetry, The Good Thief (1998), and What the Living Do (1997), and the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). Her third volume of poetry is the Kingdom Of Ordinary Time (2008). Stanley Kunitz selected Howe for a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets. She has, in addition, 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, Ploughsahres, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. Currently, Howe teaches creative writing at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia, and New York University.
Marie Howe

To reserve your place email [email protected]
Fee: $20 donation requested

Official Website: http://www.villagezendo.org