By Jane Hirshfield. I am a human poet, that's all." [11][12] She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review and Ploughshares, a former guest editor of The Pushcart Prize Anthology and an advisory editor at Orion and Tricycle. Donna Seaman, reviewing Hirshfield's ninth collection, Ledger, described Hirshfield’s “carefully weighted tone as she reckons with our constant subtraction of Earth’s life forces and incessant addition of carbon to our atmosphere, acid to our seas.” [18] Hirshfield has become an increasingly visible spokesperson for peace, justice, and environmental issues. Jane Hirshfield was born on East 20th Street, New York City. In unpredictable times, poetry can offer much needed reassurance, says poet Jane Hirshfield. "In a way, a poet is quite prepared for a pandemic," Hirshfield says in …

In a review of Come, Thief in The Georgia Review, Judith Kitchen wrote "Jane Hirshfield's felt longing elevates description to insight: not self-knowledge, less fleeting than that... something more encompassing, more akin to the indefinable suddenly given expression. She is a current chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. From our poet of the month: Jane Hirshfield. Spiritual Poetry by Jane Hirshfield The author begins her dissertation by tracing “spirit,” to its Latin root spirare, breath. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan called Hirshfield "a true person of letters". Ed. Though never a full-time academic, Hirshfield has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, The Bennington Writing Seminars, and as the Elliston Visiting Poet at the University of Cincinnati. [7], In 2019, Hirshfield was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Clause by clause, image by image, in language at once mysterious and commonplace, Hirshfield's poems clear a space for reflection and change.

Her work appears in the 2013 editions of The Best Spiritual Writing, The Best American Poetry, and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. Her books have received the Poetry Center Book Award, the California Book Award, and the Donald Hal-Jane Kenyon Prize in American Poetry. Jane Hirshfield is the author of seven collections of poetry, including the new Come, Thief, published in August 2011, After (shortlisted for England’s T.S. She has also taught at many writers conferences, including Bread Loaf and the Napa Valley Writers Conference and has served as both core and associate faculty in the Bennington Master of Fine Arts Writing Seminars. It is no coincidence that the Greek “pneuma,” and Hebrew "ruach", both share the same meanings. Jane Hirshfield, in poems described by The Washington Post as belonging “among the modern masters” and by The New York Times as “passionate and radiant,” addresses the urgent immediacies of our time.Ranging from the political, ecological, and scientific to the metaphysical, personal, and passionate, Hirshfield praises the radiance of particularity and reckons the consequence of the daily. She was the Hellman Visiting Artist in 2013 in the Neuroscience Department at University of California, San Francisco, and Stanford University's 2016 Mohr Visiting Professor in Poetry. In 1979, Hirshfield received lay ordination in Soto Zen at the San Francisco Zen Center.[2]. We've updated our Subscription site.

"The probably unspeakeable plenitude of the empirical world: Jane Hirshfield's poems recognize it at every point. Jane Hirshfield is the author of nine books of poetry and has edited and co-translated four books presenting the work of world poets from the past. Jane Hirshfield (born 24 February 1953[1]) is an American poet, essayist, and translator. [29] In 2010, she was the Blue River Fellow in the H.J. Hirshfield's work has been published in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, many literary journals, and multiple volumes of The Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. [36] Her poems have frequently been read on various National Public Radio programs, and she was featured in two Bill Moyers PBS television specials, The Sounds of Poetry and Fooling With Words. Become a subscriber, or find us at your local bookstore, newsstand, or grocer.

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