Marie Howe (CRF 2022) has been awarded the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection New and Selected Poems (2024). The collection gathers over four decades of Howe’s work, including selections from her previous collections — The Good Thief (1988), What the Living Do (1997), The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2008), and Magdalene (2017) — alongside twenty new poems.
The Pulitzer committee praised the book as “a collection drawn from decades of work that mines the day-to-day modern experience for evidence of our shared loneliness, mortality and holiness.” Howe’s poetry is celebrated for its radical simplicity and spiritual depth, transforming everyday observations into profound meditations on the human condition.
New and Selected Poems has received widespread critical acclaim, being named one of NPR’s Books We Love in 2024 and a California Review of Books Best Poetry of 2024.
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