Editing Susan Howe (section)

{{Short description|American poet (born 1937)}}

{{Infobox writer
| name         = Susan Howe
| image        = Susan Howe in Speaking Portraits c.2004.jpg
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| caption       = Susan Howe circa 2004
| birth_name    = 
| birth_date    = {{birth date and age|1937|6|10|mf=y}}
| birth_place   = [[Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S.
| death_date    = 
| death_place   = 
| occupation   = Poet, scholar
| alma_mater   = [[School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston|Boston Museum School of Fine Arts]] (1961)
| spouse       = [[Harvey Quaytman]], [[David von Schlegell]], [[Peter Hewitt Hare]]
| subject      = 
| period       = 
| genre        = [[Poetry]], [[essay]]
| movement     = [[Postmodern literature|Postmodern]] 
| notableworks =
| awards       = [[Bollingen Prize in American Poetry]] (2011); [[Guggenheim Fellowship]]; Roy Harvey Pearce Prize for Lifetime Achievement; [[Robert Frost Medal]], [[Poetry Society of America]] (2017)
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[[File:Susan-howe2004.jpg|thumb|Susan Howe, c. 2007]]
'''Susan Howe''' (born June 10, 1937) is an [[Americans|American]] [[poet]], [[scholar]], [[essayist]], and [[critic]], who has been closely associated with the [[Language poets]], among other poetry movements.<ref name="Poetry">[http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/susan-howe "Susan Howe"], The Poetry Foundation, Retrieved 24 December 2014.</ref> Her work is often classified as [[Postmodern]] because it expands traditional notions of genre ([[fiction]], [[essay]], [[prose]] and [[poetry]]). Many of Howe's books are layered with historical, mythical, and other references, often presented in an unorthodox format. Her work contains lyrical echoes of sound, and yet is not pinned down by a consistent [[Poetry#Metrical patterns|metrical pattern]] or a conventional [[Rhyme scheme|poetic rhyme scheme]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Bamidele |first=Jeremy |title=Susan Howe and David Grubbs perform at Armado Hall |newspaper=34th Street Magazine|location=Philadelphia }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/susan-howe |title = Susan Howe|date = 2019-08-06}}</ref>

Howe received the 2017 [[Robert Frost Medal]] awarded by the [[Poetry Society of America]], and the 2011 [[Bollingen Prize in American Poetry]]. She is a member of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]].