Edward Hirsch

Edward Hirsch is the author or six books of poems, most recently Lay Back the Darknessand On Love, and is the current President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, he has also been a highly influential teacher at the University of Houston. His prose works include the highly acclaimed How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetryand The Demon and The Angel: Searching for the Source of Poetic Inspiration. He is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Doubletake, The American Poetry Review,and the Washington Post. He has given numerous readings, lectures, and workshops throughout the country and recently in places such as Krakow and Prague. He lives in New York.

Hirsch is a featured poet on the Academy of American Poets web site, Poets.org. Also,  Todd Marshall interviews Hirsch for The Kenyon Review.


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