Jane Hirshfield reads from The Asking

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the University of Alaska Anchorage/Alaska Pacific University Consortium Library and co-sponsored by the Alaska Quarterly Review, Jane Hirshfield reads from her new and selected collection of poems. The Asking (Knopf 2023). The event was hosted by the Anchorage Museum.
JANE HIRSHFIELD is the author of ten collections of poetry and two now-classic collections
of essays on poetry’s deep workings, and the editor of four co-translated books presenting
world poets from the deep past. Hirshfield is one of American poetry’s central
spokespersons for concerns about the biosphere and interconnection. She is has written “some of the most important poetry in the world today” (The New York Times Magazine) and honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations and from the Academy of American Poets; the Poetry Center Book Award and the California Book Award; her books
have been long- and finalist-listed for the National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle
Award, and England’s T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry. Her work, translated into seventeen
languages, appears in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Review of Books, The
Times Literary Supplement, and ten editions of The Best American Poetry. A former
chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she was elected to the American Academy of
Arts & Sciences in 2019. Jane Hirshfield is a contributing editor of Alaska Quarterly Review.