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'''Jane Hirshfield''' (born [[1953 in poetry|1953]]) is an award-winning [[United States|American]] poet. |
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She was born in New York City and received her bachelor's degree from [[Princeton University]] in the school's first graduating class to include women. She later studied at the San Francisco Zen Center.<ref name=poets.org>[http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/563]Jane Hirshfield biography page at the Academy of American Poets Web site, accessed [[January 15]], [[2007]]</ref> |
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Hirshfield has worked as a freelance writer and translator. She has also taught at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], [[University of San Francisco]], and as the Elliston Visiting Poet at the [[University of Cincinnati]]. She is currently on the faculty of the Bennington Master of Fine Arts Writing Seminars.<ref name=poets.org/> |
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Her work has been published in ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Atlantic Monthly]]'', ''[[The Nation]]'', the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', and multiple volumes of The Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies.<ref>[http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/4512/Jane_Hirshfield/index.aspx?authorID=4512]Jane Hirshfield biography page at HarperCollins Web site, accessed [[January 15]], [[2006]]</ref> |
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==Honors and awards== |
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* The Poetry Center Book Award |
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* Fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation |
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* Fellowship, Rockefeller Foundation, |
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* Fellowship, Academy of American Poets |
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* Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts |
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* Columbia University's Translation Center Award |
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* Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal |
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* Bay Area Book Reviewers Award |
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* Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement from The Academy of American Poets ([[2004 in poetry|2004]]) |
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* Finalist, [[T. S. Eliot Prize]] |
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===Poems appearing in ''The Best American Poetry'' series=== |
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|'''Edition''' || '''Poem''' || '''Poem previously appeared in''' || '''Guest editor for that edition''' |
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|[[The Best american Poetry 2007|2007]] || "Critique of Pure Reason" || ''Ploughshares'' || [[Heather McHugh]] |
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|[[The Best American Poetry 2005|2005]] || "Burlap Sack" || ''Runes'' || [[Paul Muldoon]] |
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|[[The Best American Poetry 2004|2004]] || "Poe: An Assay (I)" || ''The Threepenny Review'', ''Poetry Daily'' || [[Lyn Hejinian]] |
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|[[The Best American Poetry 2001|2001]] || "In Praise of Coldness" || ''Tin House'' || [[Robert Hass]] |
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|[[The Best American Poetry 1999|1999]] || "The Envoy" || ''Blue Sofa'' || [[Robert Bly]] |
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==Notes== |
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==External links== |
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* [http://www.barclayagency.com/hirshfield.html] Jane Hirshfield Web pages at the Steven Barclay Agency Web site |
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* [http://www.poetryfoundation.org/features/feature.onpoets.html?id=178400] Feature article on Hirshfield at Poetry Foundation Web site |
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* [http://www.poems.com/hirinter.htm] Interview with Hirshfield at ''Poetry Daily'' Web site |
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* [http://www.kqed.org/enwiki/w/baywindow/speakingfreely/remarkable/jane_hirshfield.html] Interview with Hirshfield at KQED radio station Web site |
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* [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/03/AR2006080301086.html] Review by Steven Ratiner of ''After'' in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' Sunday, August 6, 2006 |
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