UA’s Bankhead Lecture Series To Feature Poet Jane Hirshfield

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – Poet Jane Hirshfield will read from her work on Thursday, March 15, at 7:30 p.m., in the Morgan Hall auditorium on The University of Alabama campus, as part of the Bankhead Visiting Writers Series.

Hirshfield is the author of four collections of poetry, including “The Lives of the Heart,” “The October Palace,” “Of Gravity & Angels,” and “Alaya,” as well as a book of essays on poetry, “Nine Gates.” She also edited and co-translated two poetry anthologies “The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Komachi and Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan” and “Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women.”

Hirshfield’s honors include The Poetry Center Book Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, Columbia University’s Translation Center Award, the Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal, and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Nation, The American Poetry Review, and many other publications.

A former visiting associate professor at UC Berkeley and lecturer at the University of San Francisco’s Masters in Writing program, Hirshfield is currently on the faculty of the Bennington Writing Seminars. She has also served as a guest poet at the universities of Alaska, Minnesota, and Michigan, as well as summer conferences and writers centers throughout the country.

The Bankhead Visiting Writers Series is made possible by an endowment from the Bankhead Foundation, UA’s creative writing program, the department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences.

For more information, or to obtain a schedule of future events, contact the creative writing program at 205/348-0766.