{"id":1139,"date":"2021-01-13T09:20:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T09:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2024-07-01T19:20:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T19:20:04","slug":"edward-hirsch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/edward-hirsch\/","title":{"rendered":"04\/08 Visiting Writers Series: Edward Hirsch"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>April 8, 7PM\u00a0 CDT <\/b>| <a href=\"https:\/\/vanderbilt.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_8emHVbOaRAmse6JfCqhNKw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Click here to register<\/em><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1141 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/29220334\/Hirsch.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Hirsch book cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edwardhirsch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edward Hirsch<\/a>, a MacArthur Fellow,\u00a0has published ten books of poetry, including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.penguinrandomhouse.com%2Fbooks%2F612679%2Fstranger-by-night-by-edward-hirsch%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Crene.colehour%40Vanderbilt.Edu%7C9ab62de566b7425aa02108d8eb9ef99c%7Cba5a7f39e3be4ab3b45067fa80faecad%7C0%7C1%7C637518415342129997%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&amp;sdata=rJDzBUJTXVcMbDdEbBsq%2B5zJ91VFJzPkBLiBs9KtlIc%3D&amp;reserved=0\">Stranger By Night<\/a>\u00a0(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.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u2192 \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/visiting-writers-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">View the full Spring 2021 schedule<\/a> and learn more about the Gertrude &amp; Harold S. Vanderbilt Visiting Writers Series.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 8, 7PM\u00a0 CDT | Click here to register &nbsp; Edward Hirsch, a MacArthur Fellow,\u00a0has published ten books of poetry, including\u00a0Stranger By Night\u00a0(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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":1140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/01\/29220334\/Hirsch-spotlight.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}