Kimiko Hahn, this year’s Fisher Family Writer-in-Residence, will read from her work on Wednesday, February 27, in Paterno Library’s Foster Auditorium at 7:30 pm.

Kimiko Hahn is the author of nine books of poems, including: Brain Fever (2014) and Toxic Flora (2010), both collections prompted by science; The Narrow Road to the Interior (2006) a collection that takes its title from Basho’s famous poetic journal; The Unbearable Heart (1996), which received an American Book Award; and the award-winning Earshot (1992). Since initiating the annual NYU/CUNY Chapbook Festival, now in its seventh year, Hahn has added chapbooks to her publication list. Chicago Review of Books characterizes Hahn’s most recent chapbook, Brood (2018), as “poetry that reflects on the feelings of loss, uncomfortable silences, and the hidden stories buried in our everyday objects…poetry that cuts to the raw emotionality of familial life–the melancholia of emotionally austere families, fathers who seem too distant, and daughters who don’t see or talk to you as much as they should.”

The Fisher Family Writer-in-Residence is primarily funded through the generosity of Steven Fisher, ’70. Each year for more than a decade, a well-known poet, fiction writer, or nonfiction writer has visited campus for a week to work with students in the graduate creative writing program and undergraduate creative writing classes.

The Fisher Family Writer-in-Residence is also sponsored by the Joseph L. Grucci Poetry Endowment, University Libraries, the Department of English, and the College of Liberal Arts. The reading is free and open to the public.

Author photo: © Beowulf Sheehan