Susan Howe has been awarded the 2017 Frost Medal. The annual award is the Poetry Society of America’s highest honor, given for a poet’s lifetime achievement, and Howe joins past recipients such as Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Adrienne Rich, Barbara Guest, Lucille Clifton, Charles Simic, Michael S. Harper, and Marilyn Nelson.

Howe is the author of over a dozen books of poetry. Her newest collection, Debths, is forthcoming this spring from New Directions. That This received the 2011 Bollingen Prize. Other titles include The Midnight, Pierce-Arrow, Frame Structures: Early Poems 1974–1979, The Birth-Mark: Unsettling the Wilderness in American Literary Theory, My Emily Dickinson, and The Quarry, a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Fellowship to the American Academy at Berlin, and she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and held the Samuel P. Capen Chair in Poetry and the Humanities at the State University New York at Buffalo.

An award ceremony will take place March 29 at the National Arts Club of New York City, where Howe and the winners of the organization’s other ten annual awards will be honored.

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