Susan Howe's fascinating life has ranged from being PA to Sir John Betjeman to qualifying as a Blue Badge Guide and working as a tour manager overseas with specialist lecturers. Layered and allusive, her work draws on early American history and primary documents, weaving quotation and image into poems that often revise standard typography. Susan Howe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 10, 1937. In 2011, Howe received Yale University's Bollingen Prize in American Poetry. Find the latest shows, biography, and artworks for sale by Susan Howe. Among America’s foremost poets, Susan Howe has been sculpting language since the early…
She lives in Guilford, Connecticut. She was a longtime professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo and held the Samuel P. Capen Chair of Poetry and the Humanities. She served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2001 to 2006. One of the preeminent poets of her generation, Susan Howe is known for innovative verse that crosses genres and disciplines in its theoretical underpinnings and approach to history.