Banner 2
I would like to speak in my poems with what the Romantic poets called the true voice of feeling. I believe, as Ezra Pound once said, that when it comes to poetry, only emotion endures.
Banner1
I would like to speak in my poems with what the Romantic poets called the true voice of feeling. I believe, as Ezra Pound once said, that when it comes to poetry, only emotion endures.
LATEST PUBLICATIONS
My Childhood in Pieces
Available - June 3, 2025 Pages: 288 Publisher: Knopf
The Heart of American Poetry
The Heart Of American Poetry Book
Stranger By Night
Stranger by Night Audio Interview Poem EDITORIAL
NEWS & EVENTS
A Four-Session Online Course with Edward Hirsch (New Event!)
Four sessions: March 12, March 19 March 26 April
Events for The Heart of American Poetry
Events for The Heart of American Poetry Edward Hirsch Starting
EDWARD HIRSCH’S 100 POEMS TO BREAK YOUR HEART
The Writers Studio Reading Series Celebrates EDWARD HIRSCH'S 100 POEMS TO
Edward Hirsch, a Chicago native and MacArthur Fellow, is a celebrated poet and tireless advocate for poetry. Since 2003, he has been president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has received numerous prizes, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, and the National Jewish Book Award.
BOOKS
The trademarks of his poems are things I strive to bring to my own writing: to be intimate but restrained, to be tender without being sentimental, to witness life without flinching, and above all, to isolate and preserve those details of our existence so often overlooked, so easily forgotten, so essential to our souls.
The trademarks of his poems are things I strive to bring to my own writing: to be intimate but restrained, to be tender without being sentimental, to witness life without flinching, and above all, to isolate and preserve those details of our existence so often overlooked, so easily forgotten, so essential to our souls.
The Quarantine Tapes 173: Edward Hirsch
EPISODE SUMMARY “As soon as something happens to you in America people start asking if you’re healing yet and they immediately start with the healing questions. It’s not that I’m against healing, I think healing is important, but