Information, Invitation and Insight: Transitions in Poetry (Virtual Event)

Poet Jane Hirshfield will speak about transitions within poems and the different ways they can serve the writer and reader.
About this Event

Taught by Jane Hirshfield
Friday, May 16th, 2025, 2:00 – 4:00 PM ET
In-person in Camden, Maine
$35 Registration Fee

In this craft talk, Jane Hirshfield will speak about transitions within poems and the different ways they can serve the writer and reader, from setting the poem into a context to inviting new thoughts and feelings and acting as catalysts for insight.

Join Jane Hirshfield for this special Craft Talk, a part of the 2025 Camden Festival of Poetry.

Award-winning poet, essayist, and translator Jane Hirshfield is the author of ten collections of poetry, including her newest book The Asking: New and Selected Poems (2023). Hirshfield’s work encompasses a large range of influences, drawing from the sciences as well as the world’s literary, intellectual, artistic, and spiritual traditions. Her first poem appeared in The Nation in 1973, winning what would the next year become the Discovery Award, shortly after she graduated from Princeton as a member of the university’s first graduating class to include women.

In recent decades, Hirshfield has become increasingly known as a poet working at the intersection of poetry, the sciences, and the crisis of the biosphere.