Just in time for National Poetry Month, Marie Howe has a new collection of poetry out. According to the publisher’s website, “Magdalene imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape―hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to news on the radio.” Howe has been the poet laureate of New York State, and recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Foundation. Read 7 of her poems here, available for free PDF download.
