A Fanny Howe Celebration

This Sunday, January 14, 2007 at 7pm there will be a Fanny Howe celebration, at the Plough and Stars in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Fanny Howe, a Cambridge native, is the author of over twenty books of poetry and prose including Indivisible published by Semiotext(e) in their Native Agents series.

In 2004, The Boston Globe published an in-depth article about Howe by Joshua Glenn. Here is an excerpt:

Between 1968 and 1987 the Cambridge-born Howe lectured at Tufts, MIT, and other local institutions while publishing 19 books of poetry and fiction, including a series of seven semi-autobiographical novels obsessively chronicling not just particular Boston neighborhoods but the social, economic, and political tensions that plagued the city in the racially charged `60s and `70s. Yet it wasn't until the University of California at San Diego offered her tenure in `87 that Howe began to be recognized as one of the country's least compromising yet most readable experimentalist writers. Since then, she has won the National Poetry Foundation Award, the Pushcart Prize for fiction, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets, among other prestigious awards.