Jane Hirshfield

January 4, 2024
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Jane Hirshfield
Full Name Jane Hirshfield
Occupation Poet
Date Of Birth Feb 24, 1953(1953-02-24)
Age 71
Country United States
Birth City New York
Horoscope Aquarius

Jane Hirshfield Biography

Name Jane Hirshfield
Birthday Feb 24
Birth Year 1953
Home Town New York
Birth Country United States
Birth Sign Aquarius

Jane Hirshfield is one of the most popular and richest Poet who was born on February 24, 1953 in New York, United States. American poet, California Book Award winner. Her literary works include Given Sugar, Given Salt, Pebbles & Assays, Come, Thief, Of Gravity & Angels, as well as After. She was awarded Rockefeller, Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.

Both she and Maryland-born poet She and Maryland-born poet Kim Addonizio both received Guggenheim Fellowships for their literary work. were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in recognition of their literary contributions.

In 1979, Hirshfield received lay ordination in Soto Zen at the San Francisco Zen Center.

For all her focus on insight and the unknowable, as early as 1995, Stephen Yenser noted in The Yale Review Hirshfield’s interest in the empirical. “The probably unspeakeable plenitude of the empirical world: Jane Hirshfield’s poems recognize it at every point.” In a Booklist starred review, Donna Seaman has more recently noted Hirshfield’s “meticulous reasoning, including a striking meditation on the paradoxical richness of spareness that can serve as her ars poetica.”

Carl Pabo was her partner and she received some of her poems.

Jane Hirshfield Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Poet
House Living in own house.

Jane Hirshfield is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jane Hirshfield 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was the first woman to graduate from Princeton University. In 1982, she published Alaya, her first poetry collection.

She converted to Buddhism and was ordained a layperson by the San Francisco Zen Center.

Jane Hirshfield (born 24 February 1953) is an American poet, essayist, and translator.

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Hirshfield’s poems and life increasingly reflect her long-standing interest in biology, as well as physics and other fields of science. She was the 2013 Hellman Visiting Artist in the Neuroscience department at The University of California, San Francisco, a program “created to foster dialogue between scientists, caregivers, patients, clinicians and the public regarding creativity and the brain.” In 2010, she was the Blue River Fellow in the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest’s Long Term Ecological Reflection project, whose goal is to track scientific research and artistic responses to the same sites for 200 years.

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Jane Ranked on the list of most popular Poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jane Hirshfield celebrates birthday on February 24 of every year.

Hirshfield’s work has been published in The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, the Los Angeles Times, the Times Literary Supplement, the New York Times, many literary journals, and multiple volumes of The Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies. Her poems have frequently been read on various National Public Radio programs, and she was featured in two Bill Moyers PBS television specials, The Sounds of Poetry and Fooling With Words. An interview with Hirshfield on the occasion of the publication of “The Beauty” and “Ten Windows” in March 2015 was published in SF Gate. Extended conversations with fellow poets Ilya Kaminsky (The Paris Review) , Kaveh Akbar (The American Poetry Review) , and Mark Doty (Guernica) appeared in conjunction with the publication of Ledger in 2020.

What is Jane Hirshfield known for?

Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield is the author of nine collections of poetry, including Ledger (2020); The Beauty (2015), longlisted for the National Book Award; Come, Thief (2011), a finalist for the PEN USA Poetry Award; and Given Sugar, Given Salt (2001), a finalist for the National Book …

Is Jane Hirshfield a Buddhist?

Hirshfield draws on her Buddhist practice and honed poetic craft to look unflinchingly at the mess we are in, but also to find refuge.

How old is Jane Hirshfield?

69 years (February 24, 1953)

For what binds us Jane Hirshfield meaning?

“For What Binds Us” by Jane Hirshfield is a poem about human relationships and quite literally what binds us together. It is an emotional poem containing scientific references however. The strong force and the week force are fundamental forces in physics.

What is Mary Oliver's most famous poem?

A Dream of Trees. Another of Oliver’s most famous poems, “A Dream of Trees,” was published in her first poetry collection No Voyage, and Other Poems (1963). In this poem, the speaker shares one of her dreams, which is none other than of trees.

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