Poet Edward Hirsch joined moderator Ron Charles of The Washington Post for a conversation and reading at Hill Center in April 2014. Sponsored by the Library of Congress and The Washington Post. Made possible by funding from National Capital Bank.
Edward Hirsch is an American poet and critic who wrote a national bestseller about reading poetry, How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry. He has published eight books of poems, including The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, which brings together thirty-five years of work. He is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City.
Hirsch's first collection of poems, For the Sleepwalkers, received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University. His second book, Wild Gratitude, received the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1986. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1985 and a five-year MacArthur Fellowship in 1997. He received the William Park Riley Prize from the Modern Language Association for the best scholarly essay in PMLA for the year 1991. He has also received an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature. He is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Ron Charles is the Deputy Editor of Book World for The Washington Post. For several years, he also edited The Post's "Poet's Choice" column in Book World. His reviews have won the National Book Critics Circle Award for best criticism and 1st place for Arts & Entertainment Commentary from the Society for Features Journalism. Washingtonian Magazine named him as one of the 40 people who shaped DC in 2010.
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