Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet To Speak At Greenwich Library

GREENWICH, CT — Greenwich Library is scheduled to host 2025 Pulitzer Prize winner Marie Howe on Tuesday, March 10, as part of the library’s Poet’s Voice series.

The event will take place at 7 p.m. in the Marx Family Black Box Theater and is free and open to the public. Registration is required and available here.

An open mic program is scheduled to precede the event at 5:30 p.m. in partnership with Greenwich Pen Women, offering community members an opportunity to share their own work. Open mic registration can be found here.

Howe is the author of five volumes of poetry, including "New and Selected Poems," which won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for poetry, as well as "Magdalene: Poems," "The Kingdom of Ordinary Time," "The Good Thief," and "What the Living Do." She is also co-editor of a book of essays, "In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic."

Her work has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others.

According to event information, Howe has been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation. She was selected by Stanley Kunitz for a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets, received the Academy of American Poets Poetry Fellowship in 2015, and served as Poet Laureate of New York State from 2012 to 2014.

Howe will be joined in conversation by Jesse Paris Smith, a New York City-based writer and musician who has previously appeared in the Poet’s Voice series.

Smith has curated, produced, and hosted events for nearly two decades and is the founding ambassador of the New York International Antiquarian Book Fair. She is also a co-founder of the climate action organization Pathway to Paris and serves on the board of the Elizabeth Street Garden in Manhattan.

Smith’s collaborative album "Songs from the Bardo," created with Tenzin Choegyal and Laurie Anderson and released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2021. She is also a certified grief support coach and works as a moderator for the Creative Grief Studio, with a private wellness practice in lower Manhattan.

The program is presented by the Friends of Greenwich Library with support from the Horace E. Manacher Poetry Fund.