Poet Jane Hirshfield, Friday April 2

Event announcement came from the OSU calendar:
Ms Hirshfield will speak on Friday, April 2 in the main rotunda of the Valley Library. 7:30 to 8:30 pm.

Jane Hirshfield is the author of six books of poetry, including Given Sugar, Given Salt (2001), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and her most recent collection, After, as well as a widely praised collection of essays on poetic understanding, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry. She has also edited and co-translated The Ink Dark Moon, and edited Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry by Women. Hirshfield's many honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by The Academy of American Poets. ...

A favorite poem of mine is Habit.