Edward Hirsch
Professor

Edward Hirsch was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship "genius grant" in 1998 in recognition of his passionate commitment to poetry as a writer, teacher and scholar. A John and Rebecca Moores Scholar at UH and member of the faculty since 1985, he teaches graduate literature courses and creative writing workshops. His major awards include The Rome Prize, the Lyndhurst Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Texas Institute of Letters Award in Poetry, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, an Ingram Merrill Foundation Award, and the Academy of American Poets' Peter I.B. Lavan Younger Poets Award. His recent books On Love and How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry have been issued in paperback, and How to Read a Poem... has become a national bestseller.

For the Sleepwalkers(Knopf)
Wild Gratitude (Knopf)
The Night Parade (Knopf)
Earthly Measures (Knopf)
Transforming Vision (ed., Art Institute of Chicago)
On Love (Knopf)
How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (Harcourt Brace)
Responsive Reading (University of Michigan Press)
The Demon and the Angel (Forthcoming, Harcourt Brace)