{"id":1390,"date":"2023-07-07T21:42:04","date_gmt":"2023-07-07T21:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/jane-hirshfield\/"},"modified":"2023-09-10T22:04:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-10T22:04:09","slug":"jane-hirshfield","status":"publish","type":"tribe_organizer","link":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/bio\/jane-hirshfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Hirshfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jane Hirshfield<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of ten collections of poetry and two now-classic collections of essays on poetry\u2019s deep workings, and the editor of four co-translated books presenting world poets from the deep past. Hirshfield is one of American poetry\u2019s central spokespersons for concerns about the biosphere and interconnection. Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and from the Academy of American Poets; the Poetry Center Book Award and the California Book Award; her books have been long- and finalist-listed for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, and England\u2019s T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Her work, translated into seventeen languages, appears in <em>The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement,\u00a0<\/em>and ten editions of\u00a0<em>The Best American Poetry<\/em>. A former chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she was elected to the American Academy of Arts &amp; Sciences in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1392\" src=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Hirshfield_The-Asking_9780593535950-Andreia-Wardlaw-scaled-1-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Hirshfield_The-Asking_9780593535950-Andreia-Wardlaw-scaled-1-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Hirshfield_The-Asking_9780593535950-Andreia-Wardlaw-scaled-1-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Hirshfield_The-Asking_9780593535950-Andreia-Wardlaw-scaled-1-768x1159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Hirshfield_The-Asking_9780593535950-Andreia-Wardlaw-scaled-1-1018x1536.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Hirshfield_The-Asking_9780593535950-Andreia-Wardlaw-scaled-1-1357x2048.jpg 1357w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Hirshfield_The-Asking_9780593535950-Andreia-Wardlaw-scaled-1-1140x1721.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Hirshfield_The-Asking_9780593535950-Andreia-Wardlaw-scaled-1-920x1389.jpg 920w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Hirshfield_The-Asking_9780593535950-Andreia-Wardlaw-scaled-1-575x868.jpg 575w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Hirshfield_The-Asking_9780593535950-Andreia-Wardlaw-scaled-1-380x574.jpg 380w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Hirshfield_The-Asking_9780593535950-Andreia-Wardlaw-scaled-1-800x1208.jpg 800w, https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cover_Hirshfield_The-Asking_9780593535950-Andreia-Wardlaw-scaled-1.jpg 1696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jane Hirshfield\u00a0is the author of ten collections of poetry and two now-classic collections of essays on poetry\u2019s deep workings, and the editor of four co-translated books presenting world poets from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1391,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1390"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_organizer"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1679,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_organizer\/1390\/revisions\/1679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pdxbookfest.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}