Jane Hirshfield is the author of eight collections of poetry, most recently The Beauty, a San Francisco Chronicle best book of the year and long-listed for the 2015 National Book Award. Her second collection of essays, Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World, received the 2015 Northern California Book Award. Hirshfield’s work appears frequently in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The Times Literary Supplement, The New York Review of Books, and eight editions of The Best American Poetry. Other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets. In 2012 she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Works Online:
- The Atlantic Contributor Page
- The New York Review of Books, “Day Beginning with Seeing the International Space Station and a Full Moon over the Gulf of Mexico and All Its Invisible Fishes” (subscription only)
- The New York Review of Books, “My Confession” (subscription only)
- The New Yorker Contributor Page
- Poetry Foundation Bio & Works
- Poets.org, “Poems by Jane Hirshfield”
- The Times Literary Supplement, “Ledger”
- The Times Literary Supplement, “Narrowness”
Interviews:
- Agni Online, “Zen and the Art of Poetry: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield”
- American Microreviews & Interviews, “Jane Hirshfield in conversation with Melissa Studdard”
- The Atlantic Online, “Some Place Not Yet Known: an Interview with Jane Hirshfield”
- Divedapper, “Jane Hirshfield”
- Huffington Post, “Poet Jane Hirshfield On How to Read Poetry and Restore ‘Amazement’”
- Inquiring Mind, “Interview with Jane Hirshfield: Language that Hears Itself”
- Look What She Did, “Jane Hirshfield on Ono no Komachi” (video)
- Medium, “Meet Jane Hirshfield – National Poetry Month Featured Poet for April 19th” (also includes links to online poems)
- Nashville Review, “An Interview with Jane Hirshfield”
- NPR, “‘Windows’ That Transform the World: Jane Hirshfield on Poetry”
- Palette Poetry, “Becoming Poet: Jane Hirshfield”
- Poetry Northwest, “Interview // Jane Hirshfield”
- SFGate, “Interview with poet Jane Hirshfield”
- Tin House, “Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield”
- Words With Writers, “Interview with Writer Jane Hirshfield”
- World Literature Today, “On Calligraphic Perception: A Conversation With Jane Hirshfield”
Official Website: http://www.barclayagency.com/?/site/speaker/jane-hirshfield