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On the dark road, only the weight of the rope.
Yet the horse is there.
—2006
Join us for an afternoon with the distinguished poet Jane Hirshfield, who returns to The Poets Corner on Sunday October 12 for a reading and conversation with our founder & host, Meg Weston.
Out in paperback this fall, Jane’s latest book The Asking: New and Selected Poems offers a signature investigation of the conditions, contradictions, uncertainties, and astonishments that shape our existence. Jane will read from poems old and new, and we’ll talk about the things that are important to her today as she reads and writes poetry and centers herself in the face of a world gone off-kilter.
In the Blaney Lecture she delivered for the Academy of American Poets “Making the Invisible Visible: Some Thoughts on Poetry & Science,” she says: To change from the mind of sentence to the mind of question may be the primordial tool for seeing more... It may be that the first question is: Is there a question that might be asked here? The next: What is it?
Listening, asking questions, opening our hands and our minds, we’ll bask in the ways that poetry can open us up and provide strength for our personal journeys.
Find out more about Jane Hirshfield
