Person

Fanny Howe

Writing · Born 1940-10-15 · Buffalo, New York, USA

Fanny Howe (born October 15, 1940 in Buffalo, New York) is an American poet, novelist, filmmaker and short story writer. She is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Howe grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and studied at Stanford University. “If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone’s notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle,” Fanny Howe explained in a 2004 interview with the Kenyon Review. Indeed, more than a subject or theme, the process of recording experience is central to Howe’s poetry. Her work explores grammatical possibilities, and its rhythms are generated from associative images and sounds. She was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, presented annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. She was a judge for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize. Her films may be found at: vimeo.com/fqh

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  Outremer

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  What Nobody Saw

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  Simone Weil Avenue

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• 2014Brigid of MurroeDirector
• 2010OutremerNarrator
• 1994Be AgainDirector of Photography
• 1992Simone Weil AvenueDirector of Photography
• 1990What Nobody SawScreenplay
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