Edward Hirsch

Edward performed on stage for Seriously Entertaining at City Winery on June 15, 2015, speaking on the evening’s theme, “Summertime Blues.” Watch it below. 

Edward Hirsch is a celebrated poet whose numerous awards and fellowships include a MacArthur Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, the Prix de Rome, and an Academy of Arts and Letters Award. In 2008, he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Among his books are For the Sleepwalkers, Wild Gratitude, The Night Parade, Earthly Measures, On Love, Lay Back the Darkness, Special Orders, The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, and his most recent, 100 Poems to Break Your Heart. Hirsch is also the author of several works of prose and he has edited many anthologies as well as the series The Writer’s World. He has taught at Wayne State University and the University of Houston and is now president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

In his own words: “Poetry takes us deeper into ourselves while opening us up to the larger world, which is inescapable…. Poetry deepens our personhood.”

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