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Susan Elizabeth Howe

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Susan Elizabeth Howe is a contributing editor of Tar River Poetry and served for eleven years as the poetry editor of Dialogue. Her own poems have appeared in such journals as The New Yorker, Poetry, The Southern Review, and Prairie Schooner. Her first collection of poetry, Stone Spirits, was published in 1997 and won the Charles Redd Center Publication Prize. It also received the Association for Mormon Letters award in poetry for 1998. She has just completed a second collection of poems with Florida poet Terri Witek, To Lie with a Landscape (forthcoming). Susan lives with her husband Cless Young and their three aging dogs in Ephraim, far enough away from the Wasatch Front to be a peaceful haven she can escape to when she’s not teaching. [from Discoveries: Two Centuries of Poems by Mormon Women, 107-8] Included in 75 Significant Mormon Poets
Susan Howe
Writer for LDS publication(s)
B.A., Brigham Young University M.A., University of Utah Ph.D., Denver University
A professor of creative writing at Brigham Young University, her major areas of interest include contemporary American poetry, women's literature, and modern and contemporary drama. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Southwest Review, Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, and other journals. She has also published stories and plays, and she has been editor of Exponent II and The Denver Quarterly and poetry editor for Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought. She lives with her husband in Ephraim, Utah.
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87 Works by Susan Elizabeth Howe

Title Role Year Genre
The Covenant Author Poetry
Wind Author Poetry
Transmutation Author Poetry
Snow Advice from the Basketball Coach Author Poetry
On Turning Thirty Author Personal Essay
The Death of a Guppy Author Poetry
Flowering Author Poetry
Burdens of Earth Author 1987 Drama
Getting to Disneyland Author Short Story
Mountain Psalm Author Poetry
Night Jogging in the City Author Poetry
I Am Watching Four Canada Geese Author 1992 Poetry
Ovum Author 1992 Poetry
Utah: Five Sacred Lessons Author Poetry
Summer Days, a Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe Author Poetry
To my Great-great Grandmother, Written on a Flight to Salt Lake City Author Poetry
Things in the Night Sky Author Poetry
The Woman Whose Brooch I Stole Author Poetry
Women of Wisdom and Knowledge Editor 1990 Personal Essay
The Works of Terry Tempest Williams Author Interview / Panel
When Mormon Literature Becomes "Mormon" Author Interview / Panel
Discoveries Editor 2004 Poetry
Of the Beginning Author Poetry
The Pill on the Carpet Author Poetry
Coming to Birth Author Poetry
Deer Pass Through Dusk Author Poetry
Letter to my Husband, Sent from Ireland Author Poetry
"A Large, American Gallinaceous Bird" Author Poetry
"Your Luck Is About to Change" Author Poetry
Will You Leave Utah? Author Poetry
The Dogs of Raramouchi Author Poetry
Capitol Reef, New Year's Eve, 1999 Author Poetry
The Girl with a Bow in Her Hair Curtseys Author Poetry
Deep Canyon, Late Night Author Poetry
Stone Spirits Author 1997 Poetry
ArchAngel Author Poetry
The Wisdom of the Pyrotechnician Author Poetry
Flying at Night Author Poetry
Feeding Author Poetry
Alternatives to Winter Author Poetry
The Paleontologist with an Ear Infection Author Poetry
Tiger Eating a European Author Poetry
Nor Am I Who I Was Then Author Poetry
Lessons of Erosion Author Poetry
Mountains Behind Her Author Poetry
The Stolen Television Set Author Poetry
In the Cemetery, Studying Embryos Author Poetry
To the Maker of These Petroglyphs Author Poetry
Another Autumn Author Poetry
Sexual Evolution Author Poetry
We Live in a Roadside Motel Author Poetry
The Big Tradition Author Poetry
What Takes Place of the Body Author Poetry
Appetites Author Poetry
Liberty Enlightening the World: The Statue Has Her Say Author Poetry
The Real Thing Author Poetry
Fighting with My Mother Author Poetry
Telephoning China Author Poetry
To a Recreational Parachutist Author Poetry
To My Brother in His Casket Author Poetry
Mary Keeps All These Things Author Poetry
The Girl with the Mandolin Author Poetry
Freak Accident Claims Rhino Author Poetry
Insomniac Author Poetry
On Losing My Camera Below Dead Horse Point Author Poetry
Why I Am a Witch Author Poetry
Mantis Author Poetry
Sophia Whispers Author Poetry
A Scholar Tries to Get to Millegeville Author Poetry
For You I Believe in God Author Poetry
A Prayer for Iris Author Poetry
The Gathering of Peace Author Poetry
Canyonlands Author Poetry
To a Marathon Runner Author Poetry
Gringa Author Poetry
Untitled [I had no saints, so I turned] Author Poetry
Untitled [In seventh grade, I was five-feet-ten] Author Poetry
Untitled [In my Mormon town, a girl surprised] Author Poetry
Exponent II and the Excellence of Women Author Personal Essay
Our Mothers' Love Author Personal Essay
The Creative Process Author Interview / Panel
The Skin of the Story Author 2016 Poetry
My Sadness Author 2016 Poetry
The Goodness of Created Things Author 2017 Poetry
Mother God Author 2018 Poetry
The Voice of God Author 2018 Poetry
All Things Sing Praise Author 2021 Poetry
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