Poetry Discussion with Janet Krauss: The Poetry of Edward Hirsch (Zoom)

Please join Wilton Library online as Janet Krauss leads a discussion of a selection of poems by Edward Hirsch. A reading packet will be emailed in advance of the program. There is no charge for the program, but advance registration is required. Register on the Wilton Library website in order to receive the Zoom session invitation link and reading packet.  For more information, email Michael Bellacosa.

The novelist Jhumpa Lahiri pointedly says of Edward Hirsch’s poetic voice that it is “intimate but restrained, tender without being sentimental,” and that he “witnesses life without flinching.” Experience these qualities as you read his poems. He said of his own poems that he had “the true voice of feeling.” His long poem about the death of his son Gabriel, published in 2014, is considered “a masterpiece of sorrow.” Hirsch won many awards, and as a critic for The Washington Post, he reached out to poets and to those unfamiliar with poetry in a regular column on poetry and poets.

Janet Krauss, who has two books of poetry published, Borrowed Scenery and Through the Trees of Autumn, has recently retired from teaching English at Fairfield University.