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BethPathak: Because my eyesight keeps worsening, this optimistic essay was everything to me. Thank you Edward Hirsch!

EarleBaum: Must-read: Edward Hirsch's OpEd in the New York Times today titled, "I Am Going Blind, and I Now Find It Strangely Exhilarating" Beautifully written! We agree and recommend it to you! Read the full article here:

nytopinion: “I’ve learned that you first need to publicly identify and acknowledge your disability,” writes Edward Hirsch. “Then you must acknowledge, to yourself and to others, that you need help. And, finally, you must be willing to accept the help that is offered.”

JoeRizzoNaudi: Beautiful piece here by poet Edward Hirsch on canes, blindness and kindness...

therapynews: "I Am Going Blind, and I Now Find It Strangely Exhilarating" by Edward Hirsch via NYT

blossomdai: "I Am Going Blind, and I Now Find It Strangely Exhilarating" by Edward Hirsch via NYT

theLword2016: "I Am Going Blind, and I Now Find It Strangely Exhilarating" by Edward Hirsch via NYT

ToddSStewart: "I Am Going Blind, and I Now Find It Strangely Exhilarating" by Edward Hirsch via NYT

nytopinion: “Now that I signal my disability with a white cane,” writes Edward Hirsch of losing his sight, “I find that I have tapped a well of visible kindness.”

lighthousewrite: Great piece by Lit Fest 22 visiting poet Edward Hirsch: "I Am Going Blind, and I Now Find It Strangely Exhilarating"

nytopinion: “I’ve learned that you first need to publicly identify and acknowledge your disability,” writes Edward Hirsch. “Then you must acknowledge, to yourself and to others, that you need help. And, finally, you must be willing to accept the help that is offered.”

MediaBot: Edward Hirsch: “I Am Going Blind, and I Now Find It Strangely Exhilarating”

parisreview: “There’s a burning coal inside of us—the poet’s job is to unearth it.” —Edward Hirsch

holdengraber: HAPPINESS WRITES WHITE “I don’t believe that only sorrow and misery can be written. Happiness, too, can be precise: Doctor, there’s a keen throbbing on the left side of my chest where my ribs are wrenched by joy.” ~ Ed Hirsch

ojalart: “There’s a burning coal inside of us—the poet’s job is to unearth it.” —Edward Hirsch

HalGregersen: “Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.” Edward Hirsch | As a new week starts, it can help to take stock of what rhythms give or take energy. 1/2

princessekateri: A Greek Island ~ Edward Hirsch

omb74264: I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.,Edward Hirsch,Television, Think, You ,

AhmedJu56722548: Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.,Edward Hirsch,Well, Itself, Margins ,

Gabriel13972091: I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.,Edward Hirsch,Art, Me, House ,

Domnick74804921: When I taught at the University of Houston in the Creative Writing program, we required the poets to take workshops in fiction writing, and we required the fiction writers to take workshops in poetry.,Edward Hirsch,Writing, Creative ,

HulkFerdy2769: There's never been a culture without poetry in the history of the world.,Edward Hirsch,History, Culture, World ,

parisreview: “We have a responsibility to the words we employ, since, as poets, language is in our care, our keeping.” —Edward Hirsch

ojalart: “We have a responsibility to the words we employ, since, as poets, language is in our care, our keeping.” —Edward Hirsch

EqualMystery: The poet, by creating anew, is also likely to be “restoring something old.” -Metaphor, Edward Hirsch

ilya_poet: We are not diminished but enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish, or to let others vanish, without leaving a verbal record. Poetry rises out of one solitude to meet another in recognition and connection. It companions us. --Edward Hirsch

parisreview: “A poem is a dramatic experience. It carries its own meaning. I won’t be there to explain it. It’s an orphaned creature that must make its own way in the world.” —Edward Hirsch

ojalart: “A poem is a dramatic experience. It carries its own meaning. I won’t be there to explain it. It’s an orphaned creature that must make its own way in the world.” —Edward Hirsch

Anu_Sengupta: "That’s because the speaker issues a concealed invitation through metaphor which the listener makes a special effort to accept and interpret. Such a “transaction constitutes the acknowledgment of a community.”" -- Edward Hirsch 2/2

poetswritersinc: “You don’t set out to create a body of work, of course. You set out to create a poem at a time. But I would say that certain deep feelings—lamentation and grief on the one hand, joy and exultation on the other—have always been there in the work.” —Edward Hirsch, 2014

cstheory: TR23-016 | Proving Unsatisfiability with Hitting Formulas | Edward Hirsch, Yuval Filmus, Artur Riazanov, Alexander Smal, Marc Vinyals

nimamixku: ya 19 juna’, “look closely and you will see almost everyone carrying bags of cement on their shoulders” - edward hirsch

parisreview: “Most of my life I’ve worked in coffee shops, cafeterias, fast-food joints. I like to go to public spaces and settle down to work. I’ve almost always started a poem while sitting in a coffee shop or walking.” —Edward Hirsch

crackart: But when I wrote things down in lines—it would be generous to call what I was writing poetry—I felt consoled. And so I kept doing it.

CinedeHollywood: Tobey Maguire, Edward Norton, Eiza Gonzalez, Keri Russell, Murray Bartlett, Michael Gandolfini, Diane Lane, Heather Graham, David Schwimmer, Tahar Rahim i Judd Hirsch, entre d'altres.

ojalart: “A poem is a dramatic experience. It carries its own meaning. I won’t be there to explain it. It’s an orphaned creature that must make its own way in the world.” —Edward Hirsch

goodnatureart: Edward Hirsch wrote me a note:

parisreview: “A poem is a dramatic experience. It carries its own meaning. I won’t be there to explain it. It’s an orphaned creature that must make its own way in the world.” —Edward Hirsch

YPPLaureate: Edward Hirsch recently edited the amazing anthology 100 Poems to Break Your Heart and some of us celebrated it on this evening:

Sacred_Waves: Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves. Edward Hirsch

yalereview: "There are some poets whose lines stab you with blunt force, and others whose sentences meander off in different directions and take a while to knife you, so that you don’t quite realize you’ve been cut." Edward Hirsch on John Ashbery and the slow bleed:

filmmakerscoop: Working tirelessly to highlight the legacies of historically overlooked filmmakers, Serra has helped restore countless films, including works by Edward Owens, Maya Deren, Storm De Hirsch, and Cathy Cook. She has also collaborated with the Stan VanDerBeek Estate.

ojalart: “A poem is a dramatic experience. It carries its own meaning. I won’t be there to explain it. It’s an orphaned creature that must make its own way in the world.” —Edward Hirsch

parisreview: “A poem is a dramatic experience. It carries its own meaning. I won’t be there to explain it. It’s an orphaned creature that must make its own way in the world.” —Edward Hirsch

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aross6403: Surprises: Andrea Riseborough Brian-Tyree Henry Judd Hirsch EEAAO 11 Noms Ruben Ostlund Snubs: Danielle Deadwyler Paul Dano Edward Berger

MossAnimation: Best Supporting Actor Key Huy Quan - EEAaO Colin Firth - The Batman Tenoch Mejia - WF Judd Hirsch - The Fablemans Edward Norton - Glass Onion

poemakontsa: Notes on read poems: Edward Hirsch writes the most fragile poem to alto saxophone Art Pepper. On his dramatic life, junkie, LA County, estranged daughter and his comeback late in life, the Phoenix tale. Simic writes a gorgeous poem on a night at the Five Spot. Monk was playing

PaulDragonwolf1: 2/2 • Seven syllables per line for lines one, two, and three. • Line four has 11 syllables. In Edward Hirsch's A Poet's Glossary, the endecha is described a lament or dirge that has four lines of six- or seven-syllable lines. Thankyou to The Writer's for this info

skydog811: I'm Going to Start Living Like a Mystic by Edward Hirsch - Poems

skydog811: Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch - Poems

InadeBree: ‘All that rescue us is love.’ Edward Hirsch, On Love, 1998 Ilona Langbroek ©️

InadeBree: ‘Life has to have the plenitude of art.’ Edward Hirsch, On Love, 1998 Mark Rothko, Orange, Red and Red, 1962, Dallas Museum of Art

DavidCranmerUn1: would not be sent to Attorney General Edward H. Levi until late this week or early next and that a recommendation to begin a full‐scale field investigation of the Memphis assassination had not yet been committed to paper. Edward Hirsch Levi (June 26, 1911 – March 7, 2000) was an

GiedreP: “Poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.” Edward Hirsch, “Poet’s Choice”

dean_frey: Philip Levine by Jim Wilson, 2011 Edward Hirsch called him "a large, ironic Whitman of the industrial heartland."

blueflowerarts: "Stay with me, / As I push further and further / Into the dark." Charles Simic ❤️ Rest in peace. "a keen historical awareness, a sardonic sense of humor, and a powerful consciousness of human tragedy" --Edward Hirsch

poemakontsa: You guys won't believe this, but I found a whole book of collected poems on the art work of Edward Hopper that pairs painting and poem side by side. Big poets on the book too: Lisel Mueller, Edward Hirsch...

BernieGourley: 5 of 5 stars to 100 Poems to Break Your Heart by Edward Hirsch

BernieGourley: BOOK REVIEW: 100 Poems to Break Your Heart ed. Edward Hirsch

poemakontsa: Good morning to you whose longing thrives on Sundays. Sweetness Edward Hirsch The times my sad heart knew a little sweetness come back to me now: the coffee shop in Decatur, the waffle house in Macon ... The highway signs pointed to our happiness

poemakontsa: Looking for a poem by Marina Tsvetaeva, I just bumped into this moving poem by Edward Hirsch dedicated to Marina. Admitted: I have been devoured by life - gathering firewood, feeding my small family. I have a child who died in an orphanage.

BernieGourley: 5 of 5 stars to 100 Poems to Break Your Heart by Edward Hirsch

Jospeh_Agubek: Poor Sisyphus grief - from Gabriel. A poem by Edward Hirsch. Warning : it’s a total mood changer

Wojtek_44: Edward Hirsch: "I wish I could read his [Cyprian Kamil Norwid's] last poems, but no one can. He was living in a kind of charity order, with nuns taking care of him. After he died, a cleaning service came and cleaned his room and destroyed his last poems."

paulsemel: Finished reading Edward Hirsch's "Stranger By Night: Poems."

paulsemel: Started reading Edward Hirsch's "Stranger By Night: Poems"

RWikiquote: The line is a way of thinking in poetry, by poetry..it paces the poem. -Edward Hirsch

cobblepotism: oswald cobblepot edward nygma tom wambsgans and greg hirsch are my life right now

plastic_bio: Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution , a perception. - Edward Hirsch

residentadviser: Both wrong. Hirsch is wrong because Harry can’t be treated the same as William (same for Andrew and Charles, Edward and Charles, Anne and Charles, Margaret and the Queen). But also monarchies are *more* egalitarian than republics.

EMonumentNC: "The elegy does the work of mourning; it allows us to experience mortality. It turns loss into remembrance, and it delivers an inheritance." ~Edward Hirsch

AllyDawkins: “Implicit in poetry is the notion that we are deepened by heartbreaks, that we are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish—to let others vanish— without leaving a verbal record. Poetry is a stubborn art.” Edward Hirsch

Kudu_ze_Kudu: “Look closely and you will see almost everyone carrying bags of cement on their shoulders. That’s why it takes courage to get out of bed in the morning and climb into the day.” ~ Edward Hirsch

peterdamianent1: Edward Hirsch: ‘Many of us carry the dead around with us. We shouldn’t feel ashamed of that’ - Today’s poem is not a poem, but it features a poem.  About loss, grief, death, remembrance. 

TurtlePPress: “Grace Schulman’s life’s work is a book of wonder.”—Edward Hirsch

PoetNotRockStar: “Implicit in poetry is the notion that we are deepened by heartbreaks, that we are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish—to let others vanish— without leaving a verbal record. Poetry is a stubborn art.” — Edward Hirsch

poemakontsa: A poem that almost made into my top 22 best read poems of 2022. More Than Halfway Edward Hirsch To what fractured deity can I pray? I am willing to pay the night with interest, though the night wants nothing but itself. What did I mean to say to darkness?

y_alibhai: Like highwaymen, racists come for us people of colour - throughout the journeys of our lives. We can never be British enough. Today's column cast list includes, Satnam Sanghera, Gary Younge, Afua Hirsch, Edward Enninful...

cstheory: TR22-176 | The power of the Binary Value Principle | Yaroslav Alekseev, Edward Hirsch

dogapiril: "Implicit in poetry is the notion that we are deepened by heartbreaks, that we are not so much diminished as enlarged by grief, by our refusal to vanish–to let others vanish–without leaving a verbal record.” Edward Hirsch

ojalart: “You need to write about the life you’ve lived. It can’t all be aspirational. It’s part of your job, as a poet, to write out of experience. To name what matters to you. You’ve only got one life to draw on.” —Edward Hirsch

parisreview: “You need to write about the life you’ve lived. It can’t all be aspirational. It’s part of your job, as a poet, to write out of experience. To name what matters to you. You’ve only got one life to draw on.” —Edward Hirsch

BrooklynPoets: Last day to request financial aid for our final craft lab of the year, "Writing Through Grief," on Nov 20 led by Edward Hirsch!

NLClark2: “Look closely and you will see almost everyone carrying bags of cement on their shoulders. That’s why it takes courage to get out of bed in the morning and climb into the day.” Edward Hirsch

BrooklynPoets: Last chance to register for our final craft lab of the year, "Writing Through Grief," led by Edward Hirsch! Registration ends today at 5pm.

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parisreview: “You need to write about the life you’ve lived. It can’t all be aspirational. It’s part of your job, as a poet, to write out of experience. To name what matters to you. You’ve only got one life to draw on.” —Edward Hirsch

ojalart: “You need to write about the life you’ve lived. It can’t all be aspirational. It’s part of your job, as a poet, to write out of experience. To name what matters to you. You’ve only got one life to draw on.” —Edward Hirsch

alnthomas: Looking forward to this discussion of "Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life" by Brigitta Olubas, with Lisabeth During, Jonathan Galassi, Edward Hirsch, and Francesca Wade | New York Society Library

BrooklynPoets: Just a few days left to register for our final craft lab of the year, "Writing Through Grief," on Nov 20 led by Edward Hirsch! Register by Nov 13 to save $15, or request financial aid through Nov 18. Members can take $25 off at any time.

parisreview: “I was lucky because my high school football coach said that he wanted to find a college where a ‘freaky’ kid like me could play football.” —Edward Hirsch

ojalart: “I was lucky because my high school football coach said that he wanted to find a college where a ‘freaky’ kid like me could play football.” —Edward Hirsch

OlubasB: Still a few places in-person and online available for this event with Edward Hirsch, Jonathan Galassi, Lisabeth During, Francesca Wade, Nicholas Birns, and me, this Thursday November 17.

elysehartpoetry: Love this: "I stood with the people on shore and waved goodbye to the travelers. Some were jubilant; others were broken-hearted. I have always been both." -excerpt from "Late March" by Edward Hirsch

nysoclib: We have an all-start line-up for Thursday's panel on [former NYSL member & trustee] Shirley Hazzard! Join us, along w/Jonathan Galassi, Lisabeth During, Edward Hirsch, Francesca Wade, and Brigitta Olubas, author of a new biography of Hazzard.

BrooklynPoets: Last day of early registration for our final craft lab of the year, "Writing Through Grief," on Nov 20 led by Edward Hirsch! Register by Nov 13 to save $15, or request financial aid through Nov 18. Members can take $25 off at any time.

Alabbar94: Among those: 1) Edward Hirsch. 2) Mary Oliver. 3) Louise Glück. 4) Sharon Olds. 5) Denise Levertov. 6) James Tate. And I can’t recall now the good poets I’ve recently read. If I do, I will remind you if you contact me. But they’re very rare and we wait for history to sort them.

crackart: 'You face so much doubt, so many rejections. You’re not at all sure that you are going to be able to have the life you’ve imagined for yourself' .

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