Jane Hirshfield

Jane Hirshfield’s 10th poetry collection, The Asking: New and Selected Poems, will be published by Knopf in September 2023. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she lives on the hem of Mount Tamalpais in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Poetry: ‘Poem to Be Written by Magnet in Oil for an Exhibit at the Museum of Tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro’

A poem for an exhibit that never happened does not go to waste.

Jun 26, 2023

bay area–based poet jane hirshfield has also published two collections of essays

Cold, Clear

Jane Hirshfield has been honored with the Poetry Center Book Award and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Academy of American Poets.

Mar 4, 2020

poet jane hirshfield stopped writing for eight years to study at the san francisco zen center

Paint

Jane Hirshfield is a Bay Area-based poet, essayist, and translator. Her newest book, Ledger: Poems, will be published in 2020.

Mar 4, 2020