Today, Howe is one of the most widely read of American experimental poets, although her writing career began during the 1960s with a series of paperback original novels she published under the pseudonym Della Field.

Howe has continued to publish novels throughout her career, including Lives of the Spirit/Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken (2005).
She has also continued to publish in the essay form.
Some of her essays have been collected, including The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life (2003)
Poet Michael Palmer:
Fanny Howe employs a sometimes fierce, always passionate,
spareness in her lifelong parsing of the exchange between matter and spirit.
Her work displays as well a political urgency, that is to say, a profound concern for social justice and for the soundness and fate of the polis,  the "city on a hill".
 Writes Emerson, The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty.
Here's the luminous and incontrovertible proof.

Joshua Glenn:
Fanny Howe isn't part of the local literary canon.
But her seven novels about interracial love and utopian dreaming offer a rich social history of Boston in the 1960s and '70s.


Howe's prose poems, "Everything's a Fake" and "Doubt", were selected by David Lehman for the anthology Great American Prose Poems: from Poe to the Present (2003).
Her poem "Catholic" was selected by Lyn Hejinian for the 2004 volume of The Best American Poetry.

Howe's Selected Poems won the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.
On the Ground was on the international shortlist for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize.
 Howe received the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Today, Howe is one of the most widely read of American experimental poets, although her writing career began during the 1960s with a series of paperback original novels she published under the pseudonym Della Field.
Howe has continued to publish novels throughout her career, including Lives of the Spirit/Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken (2005). She has also continued to publish in the essay form. Some of her essays have been collected, including The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life (2003)
Poet Michael Palmer:
Fanny Howe employs a sometimes fierce, always passionate,
spareness in her lifelong parsing of the exchange between matter and spirit. Her work displays as well a political urgency, that is to say, a profound concern for social justice and for the soundness and fate of the polis,  the "city on a hill".  Writes Emerson, The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty. Here's the luminous and incontrovertible proof.
Joshua Glenn:
Fanny Howe isn't part of the local literary canon. But her seven novels about interracial love and utopian dreaming offer a rich social history of Boston in the 1960s and '70s.

Howe's prose poems, "Everything's a Fake" and "Doubt", were selected by David Lehman for the anthology Great American Prose Poems: from Poe to the Present (2003). Her poem "Catholic" was selected by Lyn Hejinian for the 2004 volume of The Best American Poetry. 
Howe's Selected Poems won the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. On the Ground was on the international shortlist for the 2005 Griffin Poetry Prize.  Howe received the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.
Fanny Howe