The Friends of Greenwich Library are excited to welcome 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner Marie Howe to the Marx Family Black Box Theater on Tuesday, March 10 at 7:00pm as part of the Poet’s Voice series.
Registration, available on the Library’s calendar, is required and opens on February 19 at 10:00am.
Marie Howe
The event will be preceded by an Open Mic event at 5:30pm in partnership with Greenwich Pen Women where community members can share their own Poet’s Voice.
Both events require separate registration. Register for the Open Mic event here.
Howe is the author of five volumes of poetry, New and Selected Poems, which won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry; Magdalene: Poems; The Kingdom of Ordinary Time; The Good Thief; and What the Living Do, and she is the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others. She has been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships, and Stanley Kunitz selected Howe for a Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets. In 2015, she received the Academy of American Poets Poetry Fellowship, and from 2012-2014, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State.
Jesse Paris Smith
Howe will be joined in conversation with Jesse Paris Smith whom you may have seen at the Library’s last Poet’s Voice as part of Patti Smith’s family band. Jesse Paris Smith is a writer and musician/composer based in New York City. Through various roles, she has curated, produced, and hosted events, concerts, fundraisers, and discussions for nearly 20 years.
She is the Founding Ambassador of the NY International Antiquarian Book Fair, Co-founder of climate action organization Pathway to Paris, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Elizabeth Street Garden in Little Italy. Her collaborative album with Tenzin Choegyal and Laurie Anderson, Songs from the Bardo, based on excerpts from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, was released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and nominated for a GRAMMY in 2021. Jesse 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.
This program is presented by the Friends of Greenwich Library with support from the Horace E. Manacher Poetry Fund. It is free of charge and open to all.
Mark your calendar for these upcoming Friends Performing Arts Series events in the Berkley Theater:
- Monday, April 6: How I Got to Broadway Produced by Aimée Steele (rescheduled)
- Sunday, April 12: Musicians from Marlboro
- Thursday, May 14: I Love You So Much I Could Die, Written and Performed by Mona Pirnot, Directed by Lucas Hnath
- Thursday, June 4: Start Marking Sense, A Talking Heads Tribute
For any questions, please contact Travis Milliman, Performing Arts Librarian, at [email protected].