Ed Hirsch and Brenda Shaughnessy: A Poetry Reading

POETRY READING
Saturday, April 28

7 p.m.

Donnelley Theater, Heimbold Visual Arts Center

Ed Hirsch and Brenda Shaughnessy: A Poetry Reading

Ed Hirsch's first volume, For the Sleepwalkers (1981) was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; his second, Wild Gratitude (1986) won the award in 1987. Hirsch is president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.

Brenda Shaughnessy was born in Okinawa, Japan, in 1970 and grew up in Southern California. She is the author of Human Dark with Sugar (Copper Canyon Press, 2008).  Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, McSweeney's, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere. She is the poetry editor at Tin House magazine and currently teaches creative writing at Princeton University and Eugene Lang College at the New School.