Craft Lecture with Jane Hirshfield (via Zoom)

The Hudson Valley Writers Center is proud to present a monthly craft series featuring five award-winning poets & beloved professors. Each poet will share the insights about craft that they have gleaned from decades of devoting themselves to studying the art of poetry. Unlike a workshop environment that prioritizes student work and student-led conversation in one-off or weekly sessions, these monthly lectures will provide the much-desired chance to listen to some of today’s most renowned writers’ valuable wisdom, uninterrupted, and spaced out intentionally over the course of five months.  

Jane Hirshfield, in poems described by The Washington Post as belonging “among the modern masters” and in The New York Times Magazine as “among the most important poetry in the world today,” addresses the urgent immediacies of our time. Ranging from the political, ecological, and scientific to the metaphysical, personal, and passionate, Hirshfield praises the radiance of particularity and reckons the…