Born: 01/20/1950   Chicago
Parents: Kurt and Irma Hirsch
Spouse: Janet Landay (museum curator)
Children: Gabriel
Address(es):
Permanent :
1528 Sul Ross
Houston , TX 77006
Permanent :
Department of English, University of Houston
Houston , TX 77204
Contact Information:
Website : http://www.edwardhirsch.com

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Gabriel : a poem	Poetry	Adult	New York : Alfred A. Knopf,	2014
	Lay Back the Darkness	Poetry	Adult	New York : Knopf	2003
	How to Read a Poem : And Fall in Love with Poetry	Non Fiction , Poetry	Adult	San Diego : Harvest Books/ New York : Harcourt Brace & Co.	1999
	Responsive Reading - Poetry-History & criticism	Non Fiction	Adult	Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press	1999
	On Love	Poetry	Adult	New York : Alfred Knopf	1998
	Earthly Measures	Poetry	Adult	New York : Alfred Knopf	1994
	Transforming Vision : Writers on Art - selected and introduced by Edward Hirsch	Non Fiction	Adult	Boston : Little, Brown and Co.	1994
	The Night Parade	Poetry	Adult	New York : Knopf	1989
	Wild Gratitude	Poetry	Adult	New York : Knopf	1986
	For the Sleepwalkers	Poetry	Adult	New York : Knopf	1981
	Other writings: - Contributor to New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Nation, New Republic, New York Times Book Review and Paris Review

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Poet

Name	Date
American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award	1998
MacArthur fellow	1998
Lyndhurst Prize	1994 -1996
William Riley Parker Prize, Modern Language Association	1992
National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship	1982
National Book Critics Circle Award nonimation for "For The Sleepwalkers"	1982
American Council of Learned Societies fellow	1981
Amy Lowell traveling fellow	1978 -1979
Ingram Merrill Award, Ingram Merrill Foundation	1978 -1979
Academy of American Poets Awards	1975 -1977
Watson Fellow	1972 -1973

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