NOTE:  The Open Mic program immediately preceding POET'S VOICE will take place as scheduled.

This year's Poet's Voice event will feature 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner Marie Howe. 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.

Howe will be in conversation with Jesse Paris Smith whom you may have seen at the Library at last year's 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 event is made possible thanks to the Horace E Manacher Poetry Fund and the Friends of Greenwich Library Performing Arts Committee.