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Apr.03.2013
POETS QUARTERLY
Monday, April 1, 2013
Interview with Jane Hirshfield
And the World's Great Poets Remain Ever New—Interview with Jane Hirshfield Interview by Arthur McMaster
Jane Hirshfield is the author of seven books of poetry, including most recently Come, Thief (...
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Mar.30.2013
WORDS WITH WRITERS INTERVIEW BY MARISSA BELL TOFFOLI
[Note: I use this blog to gather pieces that otherwise might not be re-found, even by me, and something recently reminded me of this interview; so here it is. The original posting can be found at: http://wordswithwriters.com/2011/12/05/...
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Feb.15.2013
Poet Jane Hirshfield: Unleashing the Mystery of Existence
Writer Kim Rosen speaks with the acclaimed poet about Zen, openness, and the “desperation” of the creative process.
By:
Kim Rosen
Issue:
2013 March-April
In the '90s, I had an inner opening that shifted my entire...
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Feb.10.2013
Jane Hirshfield
(from THIRTY YEAR PLAN: Thirty Writers on What We Need To Build a Better Future; Great Barrington MA: ORION Books, 2012)
Optimism
The reality is this. We are going to die, and everyone we love and care about will die too....
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Dec.26.2012
The Folger Shakespeare Library commissioned essays from 13 contemporary women writers for a handsewn chapbook published in honor of its 2012 exhibition Shakespeare's Sisters: Voices of English and European Women Writers, 1500-1700. The following essay is the final one in the book.
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Dec.20.2012
First appeared: http://www.themillions.com/2012/12/a-year-in-reading-jane-hirshfield.html
Published as poetry, Anne Carson’s Nox is closer by far to W.G. Sebald’s Austerlitz than to any book of pocketable lyrics. Ultimately uncategorizable, this physically onomatopoetic facing of the...
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Nov.19.2012
Mushrooms seem to have been on my mind the last few years. A recent poem, "In A Kitchen Where Mushrooms Were Washed" is included in both the 2012 Best American Poetry and the 2012 Pushcart Prize anthology, and morels also make an appearance in the 2012 Best Spiritual Writing anthology selected poem...
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Oct.18.2012
Published on Concord Monitor (http://www.concordmonitor.com)
'Everything is connected, pay attention'
Hall-Kenyon award goes to Jane Hirshfield
By Mike Pride / For the MonitorOctober 18, 2012
Jane Hirshfield, who hid her poems under the mattress as a child, will receive the...
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Oct.16.2012
This blog appeared first in the LIBRARY OF AMERICA's Reader's Almanac blog, with a bit more information and some links at the end.
http://blog.loa.org/2012/10/jane-hirshfield-on-czesaw-miosz.html
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Jul.24.2012
The comments below on Gilgamesh as a story of ecological downfall were written for the online publication AT LENGTH, for a special series of "Short Takes on Long Poems"
for more see:
http://atlengthmag.com/poetry/short-takes-on-long-poems-volume-4/
Short Takes on Long...
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Apr.17.2012
Below are the winning haiku from The Haiku Foundation's 2012 competition, and my judge's citation for the winner and two runner-ups. The "traditional" category means haiku written in the tradition 5-7-5 form, with a seasonal reference included. The "contemporary" category, judged by Jim...
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Apr.06.2012
Here's the url for an extended conversation/interview done for the Scottish Poetry Library in Edinburgh, several month before going to read there on April 13, 2012:
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/connect/podcast/jane-hirshfield
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Feb.23.2012
Theodor Adorno's famous comment, "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric"... It rises to mind as a perennial barb, a thorn in the flesh of the thumb that holds the pen. Its moral question is too powerful a check on sentimentality about this artform to ignore or forget.
What can one do...
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Feb.20.2012
GRANT CLAUSER INTERVIEWposted on:http://poetcore.com/2012/02/20/jane-hirshfield-on-poetry-and-nature/ Jane Hirshfield on Poetry and Nature
February 20, 2012 by Grant Clauser
Grant: Do you think writers’ approach to nature/wild has changed in the contemporary world? Another way...
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Feb.09.2012
Gene Myers, in his new column for the Haiku Society of America's online site, recently posted this, following up on an earlier survey he'd queried me for:
On its Facebook page Lilliput Review said Jane "supplied the best definition of haiku (and poetry) ever" when she wrote, "The...
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Poems that brilliantly portray even mundane experiences as if they were nothing short of revelation”
—The Washington Post
About Jane
Jane Hirshfield, whose work has been called “passionate and radiant” by the New York Times Book Review, is the author of seven books of poems, most recently Come, Thief (Knopf, 2011) and After (HarperCollins, 2006; Bloodaxe Books (UK), 2006), which was named...
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