04/08 Visiting Writers Series: Edward Hirsch
April 8, 7PM CDT | Click here to register
Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow, has published ten books of poetry, including Stranger By Night (2020), The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, and Gabriel: A Poem, a book-length elegy for his son. He has also published six books of prose, among them How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry, a national best seller, and 100 Poems to Break Your Heart (2021). He has received numerous prizes, including the National Book Critics Circle Award. A longtime teacher, at Wayne State University and in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston, Hirsch is now president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He lives in Brooklyn.
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