PBS News Hour: Edward Hirsch reads another excerpt from “Gabriel: A Poem”
Edward Hirsch reads a second excerpt from his new book, "Gabriel: A Poem," an elegy for his son, who died in 2011. ABOUT
A Poet On Losing His Son: ‘Before You Heal, You Have To Mourn’
On a stormy night in 2011, poet Edward Hirsch lost his 22-year-old son, Gabriel. After taking a club drug, Gabriel had a seizure and died of cardiac arrest. In life, Gabriel was exciting and energetic, but he also struggled, as his father remembers in his poetry: I look back at the worried parents Wandering through
Reading at the Free Library of Philadelphia
Over the course of eight collections of poetry, four books of criticism, and the long-running “Poet’s Choice” column in the Washington Post, Edward Hirsch has cemented his reputation as an attentive reader and an elegant poet, capturing what the Romantic poets called “the true voice of feeling.” His many honors include the National Book Critics Circle
Poet-to-Poet Edward Hirsch, “Fast Break”
Edward Hirsch reading “Fast Break,” as part of Poet-to-Poet, the Academy of American Poets’ educational project for National Poetry Month 2014. Pellentesque a massa nec massa laoreet iaculis. Nam fermentum porta velit. Aenean mattis bibendum dictum. Nulla convallis egestas risus. Curabitur a nisi in urna rutrum euismod at eget arcu. Nam turpis justo, luctus
5×15 Lecture
Edward Hirsch was born in Chicago in 1950 and educated both at Grinnell College and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a Ph.D. in folklore. His first collection of poems, For the Sleepwalkers, was published in 1981 and went on to receive the Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets and
PEN Bravery in Poetry Lecture: Joseph Brodsky
Edward Hirsch discusses the life and work of Joseph Brodsky at the Bravery in Poetry event at PEN's 2013 World Voices Festival
Hay Festival Reading and Interview
Edward Hirsch is an American poet and critic who captivated audiences with the acclaimed 'bestseller' How to Read a Poem: And Fall in Love with Poetry, in which he brought the pleasure of poetry to readers. Author of eight compilations of poems and six books on poetry, Hirsch is currently the president of the John Simon
An Interview with Edward Hirsch by Judith Harris
Judith Harris: I assume that in the years between high school, when you first started writing poetry, and the publication of your first book, when you were thirty-one, your work was changing as you developed your craft. What were the earliest poems that appear in For the Sleepwalkers, and at what point did you write them?
Rattapallax Feature: Edward Hirsch
Interview and short film about poet Edward Hirsch.
Folger Shakespeare Library: O. B. Hardison Poetry Series
Folger Shakespeare Library: O. B. Hardison Poetry Series