Join acclaimed and award-winning poets Jane Hirshfield and Dan Gerber for a poetry reading and book signing on Thursday, October 26, 2017, at the 2017 Fall Arts Celebration, presented by Grand Valley State University, Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus, in Grand Rapids, MI.
Jane Hirshfield has authored many collections of poetry and prose, including The Beauty, which was longlisted for the National Book Award; Come Thief; After, which was shortlisted for England’s T.S. Eliot Prize and named a “best book of 2006” by The Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the London Financial Times; Given Sugar, Given Salt, a finalist for the 2001 National Book Critics Circle Award; The Lives of the Heart; and The October Palace.
In fall 2004, Hirshfield was awarded the 70th Academy Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by The Academy of American Poets, an honor formerly held by such poets as Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Elizabeth Bishop. In 2012, she was elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Dan Gerber is the author of a dozen books of poetry, fiction, essays, and memory. His most recent book of poems is Sailing through Cassiopeia, and he celebrates the publication of Particles: New & Selected Poems this fall from Copper Canyon Press. His work has received ForeWord Magazine’s Gold Medal Award, a Mark Twain award for distinguished contribution to Midwest literature, a Michigan Author Award plus a Michigan Notable Book Award. He is the co-founder, with the late Jim Harrison, of the literary magazine Sumac, and lives in the Santa Ynez Valley of California.
L.V. Eberhard Center, Second Floor
Robert C. Pew Grand Rapids Campus
Grand Valley State University
301 West Fulton Street
Grand Rapids, MI
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