Jane Hirshfield will be reading from her work at noon on April 2nd as part of the Morrison Library’s monthly poetry series, Lunch Poems.
Hirshfield’s eighth poetry book, The Beauty, appears from Knopf in early 2015, along with a new book of essays, Ten Windows. Previous books include Come, Thief (Knopf, 2011) and After (2006), named a best book of the year by The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Financial Times (UK). She has also written a book of essays, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry and edited and co-translated four books of work by world poets of the past.
Hirshfield’s honors include The Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, finalist selection for the National Book Critics Circle Award, England’s T. S. Eliot Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, the Academy of American Poets, and the National Endowment for the Arts. She is a frequent presenter at universities and literary festivals both in the US and abroad, and she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2012.