August 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Rest in peace, Fanny Howe. She wrote like she always knew there was something to be frightened of, but in her poetry she never made it win. 🩶 #fannyhowe
July 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Rest in peace, Fanny Howe. She wrote like she always knew there was something to be frightened of, but in her poetry she never made it win. 🩶 #fannyhowe
Fanny Howe’s writing changed my life - first with “Poem From A Single Pallet” and through many books, esp “The Winter Sun” - her mix of serious ethical commitment, a wild memory, and her sense of “The line’s ecstatic lash” made a serious impression. We’ve lost a great one. #fannyhowe
July 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Fanny Howe’s writing changed my life - first with “Poem From A Single Pallet” and through many books, esp “The Winter Sun” - her mix of serious ethical commitment, a wild memory, and her sense of “The line’s ecstatic lash” made a serious impression. We’ve lost a great one. #fannyhowe
July 9, 2025 at 3:27 PM
June 8, 2025 at 2:34 AM
#ClipOfTheDay: “You might think I am just old but I have finally decided to make the decision to never grow up, and remain under my hood.” In this video, the late Fanny Howe reads from her collection Second Childhood (Graywolf Press) at the 2014 National Book Awards ceremony. at.pw.org/FannyHowe
July 11, 2025 at 12:00 AM
#ClipOfTheDay: “You might think I am just old but I have finally decided to make the decision to never grow up, and remain under my hood.” In this video, the late Fanny Howe reads from her collection Second Childhood (Graywolf Press) at the 2014 National Book Awards ceremony. at.pw.org/FannyHowe
There is nothing here
to love This seascape fits exactly with
the geography of my mind:
whatever is close is dangerous
— “Somewhere” by Fanny Howe
www.theparisreview.org/poetry/3954/...
#FannyHowe #poetry
to love This seascape fits exactly with
the geography of my mind:
whatever is close is dangerous
— “Somewhere” by Fanny Howe
www.theparisreview.org/poetry/3954/...
#FannyHowe #poetry
Somewhere by Fanny Howe
Somewhere between Norway and Irelandvolcanic rocks and glaciers leap from the seaMy map has failed me, I’m there
www.theparisreview.org
July 9, 2025 at 6:40 PM
There is nothing here
to love This seascape fits exactly with
the geography of my mind:
whatever is close is dangerous
— “Somewhere” by Fanny Howe
www.theparisreview.org/poetry/3954/...
#FannyHowe #poetry
to love This seascape fits exactly with
the geography of my mind:
whatever is close is dangerous
— “Somewhere” by Fanny Howe
www.theparisreview.org/poetry/3954/...
#FannyHowe #poetry
Another beloved poet has passed from the living, but leaves us this poignant reminder of how simple and fundamental what we ultimately cherish always is.
#FannyHowe #PoetryCommunity #PoetryDaily #PoetrySlam #Poem #PoetryLover #PoetrySoup
#FannyHowe #PoetryCommunity #PoetryDaily #PoetrySlam #Poem #PoetryLover #PoetrySoup
July 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Another beloved poet has passed from the living, but leaves us this poignant reminder of how simple and fundamental what we ultimately cherish always is.
#FannyHowe #PoetryCommunity #PoetryDaily #PoetrySlam #Poem #PoetryLover #PoetrySoup
#FannyHowe #PoetryCommunity #PoetryDaily #PoetrySlam #Poem #PoetryLover #PoetrySoup
On the occasion of publication of Chloe Garcia Roberts' terrific PARIS REVIEW interview with Fanny Howe, I am sharing my "Letter from Ireland." #fannyhowe #marymanning #abbeytheatre #parisreview #ireland #boston substack.com/@lindaenorto...
Letter from Ireland (updated 6.30.25 with a link to Chloe Garcia Roberts' interview with Fanny Howe for THE PARIS REVIEW)
At the Abbey's production of Youth's the Season, a play by Mary Manning (mother of Fanny Howe and Susan Howe and grandmother of Danzy Senna)
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July 1, 2025 at 2:57 AM
On the occasion of publication of Chloe Garcia Roberts' terrific PARIS REVIEW interview with Fanny Howe, I am sharing my "Letter from Ireland." #fannyhowe #marymanning #abbeytheatre #parisreview #ireland #boston substack.com/@lindaenorto...
Vale #FannyHowe– here's something brilliant by her, in memory.
July 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Vale #FannyHowe– here's something brilliant by her, in memory.
Recently published in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy, former Senior Editor #EzraFox reflects on the death of beloved poet and novelist #FannyHowe, long-time resident of Cambridge, MA:
"Fanny Howe didn’t want to write her last book, Manimal Woe. I know because I was her editor."
lithub.com/dear-fanny-d...
"Fanny Howe didn’t want to write her last book, Manimal Woe. I know because I was her editor."
lithub.com/dear-fanny-d...
Dear Fanny, Don’t Worry, I Know You’re Dead
Fanny Howe didn’t want to write her last book, Manimal Woe. I know because I was her editor. Fanny had intended to publish a pamphlet of legal writings by her father, civil rights scholar Mark DeWo…
lithub.com
August 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Recently published in @lithub.com.web.brid.gy, former Senior Editor #EzraFox reflects on the death of beloved poet and novelist #FannyHowe, long-time resident of Cambridge, MA:
"Fanny Howe didn’t want to write her last book, Manimal Woe. I know because I was her editor."
lithub.com/dear-fanny-d...
"Fanny Howe didn’t want to write her last book, Manimal Woe. I know because I was her editor."
lithub.com/dear-fanny-d...
Fanny Howe, Poet of Unsettled Dreams #obitpix #fannyhowe #poet #artofinstagram #brushdrawing #illustration #portraitdrawing
July 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Fanny Howe, Poet of Unsettled Dreams #obitpix #fannyhowe #poet #artofinstagram #brushdrawing #illustration #portraitdrawing
I wanted to be air, or wind — to be at ease in outer space but in the world
this was the case:
𝑯𝙪𝒎𝙖𝒏 was God's secret name.
- #FannyHowe, from ‘O'Cloud,’ 1995 & ‘Selected Poems,’
University of California Press, 2000.
this was the case:
𝑯𝙪𝒎𝙖𝒏 was God's secret name.
- #FannyHowe, from ‘O'Cloud,’ 1995 & ‘Selected Poems,’
University of California Press, 2000.
August 17, 2025 at 8:55 AM
I wanted to be air, or wind — to be at ease in outer space but in the world
this was the case:
𝑯𝙪𝒎𝙖𝒏 was God's secret name.
- #FannyHowe, from ‘O'Cloud,’ 1995 & ‘Selected Poems,’
University of California Press, 2000.
this was the case:
𝑯𝙪𝒎𝙖𝒏 was God's secret name.
- #FannyHowe, from ‘O'Cloud,’ 1995 & ‘Selected Poems,’
University of California Press, 2000.
