Jane Hirshfield Poetry Reading & Interview

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Celebrated poet Jane Hirshfield joins @BanyenBooksSoundVancouver for a conversation with poetry on her new book, Ledger: Poems. Purchase the book at https://www.banyen.com/

Jane Hirshfield is one of our most celebrated contemporary poets. Her books have received the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and the Donald Hall-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry and have been finalists for The National Book Critics Circle Award and England’s T. S. Eliot Prize and long-listed for the National Book Award. Hirshfield has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy of American Poets, and she presents her work at literary and interdisciplinary events worldwide. Her poems appear in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, Harper’s Magazine, and Poetry, and have been selected for ten editions of The Best American Poetry. She is a 2019 elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

In this interview and reading, Hirshfield recites such poems as "Let Them Not Say" and "On the Fifth Day".

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Interview Host: Ross McKeachie
Event Manager/Curator, Podcast Producer/Editor: Jacob Steele
Music: Samuel Romero

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