By Michelle Hines, University Relations
Edward Hirsch.
Acclaimed poet Edward Hirsch will read at UNCG Oct. 19.
The reading, sponsored by UNCG’s MFA Writing Program and The Greensboro Review, begins at 8 p.m. in the university’s Faculty Center on College Avenue. The event is free and open to the public, and a reception and book signing will follow.
Hirsch is the author of six books of poems: Lay Back the Darkness On Love (1998); Earthly Measures (1994); The Night Parade (1989); Wild Gratitude (1986), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award; and For the Sleepwalkers (1981), which received the Lavan Younger Poets Award from The Academy of American Poets and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award from New York University.
He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur foundations, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome, and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award.
Hirsch is currently the president of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
