2024 Blaney Lecture with Jane Hirshfield

Former Academy of American Poets Chancellor Jane Hirshfield delivers the 2024 Blaney Lecture on contemporary poetry and poetics.
Both poems and science are tools for making visible what was always there to be seen. Both also create new ways of seeing, feeling, knowing, living. Amid the crises, griefs, divisions, and losses of the current era, this talk explores a few examples of the ways that expansions of saying and knowing are also expansions of what might be possible, thinkable, doable.
Jane Hirshfield's latest book is The Asking: New and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2023). Hirshfield was awarded the 2004 Fellowship for distinguished poetic achievement by the Academy of American Poets.
The Blaney Lecture was created in memory of former Academy of American Poets Board member Dr. Dorothy Gulbenkian Blaney, past president of Cedar Crest College and champion of women and education, by a gift from her estate.
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