The Golden Rose

New England Poetry Club is proud to announce that Marie Howe is the 2026 recipient of the Golden Rose award. This award honors Howe both for her accomplishments as a writer and for her profound service to poets and poetry.
 
Marie Howe is the author of New and Selected Poems, (W.W. Norton 2024), which won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize. From 2012-2014, she served as the Poet Laureate of New York State. She is the poet-in-residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Her The Good Thief (1988) was chosen for the National Poetry Series by Margaret Atwood, who praised Howe’s “poems of obsession that transcend their own dark roots.” In that collection, Howe’s oracular yet self-doubting speakers often voice their concerns through Biblical and mythical allusions. Kunitz, on selecting the book for the Lavan Younger Poets Prize from the American Academy of Poets, observed, “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.”

Howe has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and NYU. She coedited (with Michael Klein) the essay anthology In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). She has received fellowships from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She was the Poet Laureate of New York State from 2012 to 2014. She is the poet in residence at The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine and a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Howe lives in New York City.