Award-winning poet Marie Howe will present a lecture entitled “No Not Nothing Never: Interruption, Contradiction, and Negation as a Way To Push Open the Door You Didn’t Know Was There” on Tuesday, October 27, at 4:30 p.m. at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ James M. Stewart ’32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street. This 2015-16 Theodore H. Holmes ’51 and Bernice Holmes Lecture presented by Princeton’s Program in Creative Writing, is free and open to the public.

Marie Howe is the 2012-14 Poet Laureate of New York State. Her most recent book, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (2009) was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Her other collections of poetry include What the Living Do (1998), which was praised by Publisher’s Weekly as one of the five best poetry collections of the year, and The Good Thief (Persea, 1988), which was selected by Margaret Atwood for the 1987 National Poetry Series. She was also awarded the 2015 Academy of American Poets Fellowship. Her other awards include grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the Bunting Institute, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has taught at Tufts University and Dartmouth College and is currently teaching at Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and Columbia University.

The annual lecture is named for Theodore Holmes, a Class of 1951 biology major and graduate of Princeton who became a poet, and his sister Bernice. The subject is the relationship between experience and poetry.