Jane Hirshfield is writing “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York Times Magazine). She is the author of two now-classic collections of essays, and the editor and co-translator of four books presenting world poets from the deep past. Hirshfield’s work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, and 10 editions of The Best American Poetry. A lay-ordained practitioner of Soto Zen and former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she was elected into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2019. Her most recent book is The Asking: New & Selected Poems (Knopf, 2023).
Jane Hirshfield
