Edward Hirsch is an American poet and critic who wrote a
national bestseller about reading poetry. He has published eight books of poems
which brings together thirty-five years of work. He is president of the John
Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City.
Hirsch was born in Chicago on January 20,1950. He had a childhood involvement with poetry,which he later explored at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a PhD in folklore.
Hirsch was a professor of English at Wayne State University. In 1985, he joined the faculty at the University of Houston, where he spent 17 years as a professor in the Creative Writing Program and Department of English.
Hirsch is a well-known advocate for poetry whose essays have been published in the American Poetry Review. He wrote a weekly column on poetry for The Washington Post Book World from 2002-2005, which resulted in his book Poet’s Choice (2006). He also edits the series “The Writer’s World".
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 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. Hirsch’s book, How to Read a Poem and fall in Love with Poetry (1999), was a surprise bestseller and remains in print through multiple printings.
Hirsch was born in Chicago on January 20,1950. He had a childhood involvement with poetry,which he later explored at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a PhD in folklore.
Hirsch was a professor of English at Wayne State University. In 1985, he joined the faculty at the University of Houston, where he spent 17 years as a professor in the Creative Writing Program and Department of English.
Hirsch is a well-known advocate for poetry whose essays have been published in the American Poetry Review. He wrote a weekly column on poetry for The Washington Post Book World from 2002-2005, which resulted in his book Poet’s Choice (2006). He also edits the series “The Writer’s World".
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 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. Hirsch’s book, How to Read a Poem and fall in Love with Poetry (1999), was a surprise bestseller and remains in print through multiple printings.
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