Saturday, September 6th
12:30pm CT – Joseph & Bessie Feinberg Foundation Stage

Edward Hirsch, a Chicago native and MacArthur Fellow, has published ten books of poems, including The Living Fire and Gabriel: A Poem, as well as eight prose books about poetry, among them How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry and 100 Poems to Break Your Heart. His new memoir is called My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, A Skokie Elegy. He is president of the Guggenheim Foundation and lives in Brooklyn.