About

Known credits:
12
Birthday:
1940-10-15
Place of birth:
Buffalo, New York, USA
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Fanny Howe

Overview

Fanny Howe (born October 15, 1940 in Buffalo, New York) is an American poet, novelist, filmmaker and short story writer. She is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Howe grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and studied at Stanford University. “If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone’s notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle,” Fanny Howe explained in a 2004 interview with the Kenyon Review. Indeed, more than a subject or theme, the process of recording experience is central to Howe’s poetry. Her work explores grammatical possibilities, and its rhythms are generated from associative images and sounds.

She was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, presented annually by the Poetry Foundation to a living U.S. poet whose lifetime accomplishments warrant extraordinary recognition. She was a judge for the 2015 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Her films may be found at: vimeo.com/fqh

Known for

Acting
2010 Outremer Actor Narrator N/A
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Directing
2014 Brigid of Murroe Directing Director N/A
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2010 Outremer Directing Director N/A
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1994 Be Again Directing Director N/A
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1992 Simone Weil Avenue Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2014 Brigid of Murroe Writing Writer N/A
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2010 Outremer Writing Writer N/A
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1994 Be Again Writing Writer N/A
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1990 What Nobody Saw Writing Screenplay N/A
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Camera
1994 Be Again Camera Director of Photography N/A
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1992 Simone Weil Avenue Camera Camera Operator N/A
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1992 Simone Weil Avenue Camera Director of Photography N/A
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