Edward Hirsch is a celebrated poet and champion for poetry.
He serves as president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and lives in Brooklyn..
He is the author of ten books of poems and six books of prose and has received numerous awards and fellowships, including a MacArthur Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize, a Pablo Neruda Presidential Medal of Honor, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for literature.
Edward Hirsch is a celebrated poet and champion for poetry