Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch is a celebrated poet and peerless advocate for poetry. A MacArthur fellow, he has published nine books of poems and five books of prose. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He serves as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and lives in Brooklyn.

A Reckoning and a Testimonial: On Robert Hayden’s “The Whipping”

Edward Hirsch Gives a Close Reading of Hayden's Unsentimental
Poem of Childhood

April 2, 2021 By Edward Hirsch

10 Essential Terms for Poets (and Everyone Else)

From Aubade to Oriki to Tanka and More!

April 7, 2017 By Edward Hirsch

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