With emotion, we invite you to an evening of readings, screenings and discussions about the work of American author Fanny Howe (1940–2025).
Divided Publishing will introduce Fanny Howe’s work in relation to their practice, texts from her books will be read by Lucy Grauman and a programme of Howe’s ‘hand-made, home-made’ films, curated by Terrassen, a roving cinema from Copenhagen, will be screened twice:
5:30 pm: film screening (51 mins)
6:30 pm: introduction, reading and discussion
7:30 pm: break and book sales
8:00 pm: film screening (51 mins)
This event is convened with Divided and coincides with the release of a new revised edition of Howe’s ‘Holy Smoke’, which was first published in 1979. The book is an account of the frenzy and paranoia of United States politics refracted through one individual’s psyche.
In addition to the freshly printed ‘Holy Smoke’ (2025), Howe’s books ‘Night Philosophy’ (2020) and ‘London-rose | Beauty Will Save the World’ (2022) will also be available to purchase.
Fanny Howe was born on 15 October 1940 in Buffalo, New York. She was professor emerita in literature at the University of California, San Diego, and the author of more than fifty books of poetry and prose. Howe taught literature and writing throughout her life and mentored a generation of American poets, activists and scholars working at the intersection of experimental and metaphysical thinking. She died on 8 July 2025 in Lincoln, Massachusetts.
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