Sharon Dolin + Jane Hirshfield

Please join Green Apple Books in welcoming poets Sharon Dolin and Jane Hirshfield on Monday, April 4th, 2016 at 7pm at our Clement St.location (506 Clement St.).

This evening will highlight the work of two of the nation’s foremost poets & heralds the release of Sharon Dolin’s Manual for Living.

Sharon Dolin is the author of six poetry collections, including Manual for Living (2016), Serious Pink (2015 reissue), Whirlwind (2012), and Burn and Dodge (2008), which won the AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Her other awards include the Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress, a Fulbright Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, and a Drisha Arts Fellowship. Her work has appeared in dozens of magazines as well as in these recent anthologies: Short Flights: Aphorism Anthology, The Poet’s Quest for God, The Incredible Sestina Anthology, Ecopoetry, Poetry in Medicine, and the Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poets. She is co-founder and director of the Center for Book Arts Annual Poetry Chapbook Competition in New York City. Since 2014, she directs and teaches in the international writing workshop, Writing About Art in Barcelona.

Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield is the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Beauty (2015), a finalist for the National Book Award, Come, Thief (2011), After (2006), shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot prize, and Given Sugar, Given Salt (2001), a finalist for the National Book Critics Award, among others. She is also the author of two books of essays, the now-classic Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (1997) and Ten Windows: How Great Poems Transform the World. (2015). Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. She has received honors including the Poetry Center Book Award, Columbia University’s Translation Center Award, the Bay Area Book Reviewer’s Award, the Commonwealth Club of California Poetry Medal, and the Hall-Kenyon Award. In 2004, she was awarded the Academy Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. Elected a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets in 2012, she is the 2016 Mohr Visiting Poet at Stanford.