Kimiko Hahn



Kimiko Hahn (born 1955 Mount Kisco, New York) is an American poet and instructor of poetry.

Personal
Hahn received a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and an M.A. from Columbia University.

She is a distinguished professor at Queens College, CUNY and has also taught at New York University, and University of Houston.

Aside from poetry, Hahn has written for film such as the 1995 two-hour MTV special, "Ain't Nuthin' But a She-Thing" (for which she also recorded the voice-overs); and most recently, a text for "Everywhere at Once," Holly Fisher’s film based on Peter Lindbergh’s still photos and narrated by Jeanne Moreau. The latter premiered at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and presented at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.

Her mother was a Japanese-American from Hawaii, and her father is German-American from Wisconsin. Her sister is the ethnomusicologist and performer, Tomie Hahn.

Awards

 * 2008 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.
 * 2008 American Book Award
 * Association of Asian America Studies Literature Award
 * Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award
 * Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize
 * Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America
 * The National Endowment for the Arts fellowships
 * N.Y. Foundation for the Arts fellowships
 * 2010 Guggenheim Fellow

Poems on line

 * “The Waiting Room,” “Residue of God,” atlengthmag, http://atlengthmag.com/poetry/the-residue-of-god-after-the-waiting-room/
 * "Alba", "Allure", "Awareness", and "My Very Exciting Magic Carpet Just Sailed Under 	Nine Palace Elephants," Cerise Press [online] Spring 2010, Vol. 1 Issue 3, www.cerisepress.com/
 * “Raptor,” “The Apiculturalist,” http://www.kenyonreview.org/kro_full.php?file=hahn.php
 * “Just Walk Away Renee,” “A Meditation on Magnetic Fields,” http://www.clementinemagazine.com/orphanlooksagifthorseinthemouth%28orwhyiwa4
 * ”Phantosmia,” “Sedna,” “The Soul,” storyscape online journal, issue 4, October 2009 
 * "Cope's Rule," "Nepenthe," "Magpie Lark," PEN, 2008, http://www.pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/2799/prmID/1659
 * “Bumble Bees,” On Earth + podcast, http://www.onearth.org/multimedia/podcast/poet-kimiko-hahn-on-the-voyage-home
 * “The Fever” http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2007/08/27/070827po_poem_hahn
 * “The Light” http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/05/06/020506po_poem_hahn
 * “The Dilemma of Closure [August 8–10]” http://www.storyscapejournal.com/truth.html
 * “Design” http://www.storyscapejournal.com/we-don't-know.html
 * "The Closet" http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=7434
 * "In Childhood" http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/98_99/hahn.html
 * "Like Lavrinia" http://www.versedaily.org/likelavrinia.shtml
 * "The Line" http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v3/i3/t/hahn1.html
 * "The Breast's Syllabics"  http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v3/i3/t/hahn2.html
 * "Becoming the Mother" http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/v3/i3/t/hahn3.html