Kimiko Hahn in 2006. Photo by David Shankbone. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikipedia Commons.
| Kimiko Hahn | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1955 Mount Kisco, New York |
| Nationality |
 American |
| Genres | poetry |
| Notable award(s) | American Book Award, PEN / Voelcker Award |
Kimiko Hahn (born 1955) is an American poet and academic.[1]
Life[]
Hahn was born in Mount Kisco, New York. Her mother was a Japanese-American from Hawaii, and her father is German-American from Wisconsin. Her sister is ethnomusicologist and performer Tomie Hahn.[2]
Kimiko Hahn received a bachelor's degree from the University of Iowa and an M.A. from Columbia University.
She is a distinguished professor at Queen's College, City University of New York, and has also taught at New York University, and University of Houston.[3]
Hahn has also written for film, such as the 1995 2-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.[4]
Recognition[]
- 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 Fellowship
Publications[]
- We Stand Our Ground: Three women, their vision, their poems (by Kimiko Hahn, Gale Jackson, & Susan Sherman). New York: Ikon, 1988.
- Air Pocket. Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1989.
- Earshot. Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1992.
- The Unbearable Heart. New York: Kaya Press, 1995.
- Volatile. Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1999.
- Mosquito and Ant: Poems. New York: Norton, 1999.
- The Artist's Daughter: Poems New York: Norton, 2002.
- The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems. New York: Norton, 2006.
- A Field Guide to the Intractable: Zuihitsu." (chapbook). New York: Small Anchor Press, 2009.
- Toxic Flora: Poems. New York: Norton, 2010.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]
See also[]
Kimiko Hahn at the NYS Writers Institute in 2014
Visiting Writers Series - Kimiko Hahn
Kimiko Hahn American Poets Reading
Kimiko Hahn Brain Fever
References[]
- Kimiko Hahn's 'Interlingual Poetics' in Mosquito and Ant By: Grotjohn, Robert. pp. 219–34 IN: Lim, Shirley Geok-lin (ed.); Gamber, John Blair (ed.); Sohn, Stephen Hong (ed.); Valentino, Gina (ed.); Transnational Asian American Literature: Sites and Transits. Philadelphia, PA: Temple UP; 2006. viii, 306 pp. (book article)
- Two Hat Softeners 'In the Trade Confession': John Yau and Kimiko Hahn By: Zhou, Xiaojing. pp. 168–89 IN: Zhou, Xiaojing (ed. and introd.); Najmi, Samina (ed.); Form and Transformation in Asian American Literature. Seattle, WA: U of Washington P; 2005. 296 pp. (book article)
- 'I Cannot Find Her': The Oriental Feminine, Racial Melancholia, and Kimiko Hahn's The Unbearable Heart By: Chang, Juliana; Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism, 2004; 4 (2): 239-60. (journal article)
- Mixing Aesthetics. A Poet's Cityscape: Kimiko Hahn By: Schlote, Christiane. pp. 541–59 IN: Alonso Gallo, Laura P. (ed. and introd.); Voces de América/American Voices: Entrevistas a escritores americanos/Interviews with American Writers. Cádiz, Spain: Aduana Vieja; 2004. 730 pp. (book article)
- "Pulse and Impulse: The Zuihitsu" By: Hahn, Kimiko. pp. 75–82 IN: Dienstfrey, Patricia (ed.); Hillman, Brenda (ed.); DuPlessis, Rachel Blau (foreword); The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan UP; 2003. xxvi, 278 pp. (book article)
- Luce Irigaray's Choreography with Sex and Race By: Mori, Kaori; Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences, 2002 July; 63 (1): 189. State U of New York, Buffalo, 2002. (dissertation abstract)
- To Adore a Fragment: An Interview with Kimiko Hahn By: Kalamaras, George; Bloomsbury Review, 1999 Mar-Apr; 19 (2): 13-14. (journal article)
- Breaking from Tradition: Experimental Poems by Four Contemporary Asian American Women Poets By: Xiaojing, Zhou; Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, 1998 Nov; 37: 199-218. (journal article)
Notes[]
- ↑ Academy of American Poets
- ↑ http://college.cengage.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/hahn_ki.html
- ↑ http://www.cuny.edu/about/people/faculty/bios.html
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1202170/
- ↑ Search results = au:Kimiko Hahn, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 6, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- Kimiko Hahn profile & 2 poems at the Academy of American Poets.
- “Residue of God,” “After the Waiting Room”, AtLength.
- “Just Walk Away...,”, “A Meditation on Magnetic Fields,” Clement magazine.
- "Cope's Rule," "Nepenthe," "Magpie Lark," PEN, 2008,
- Kimiko Hahn in the New Yorker.
- Audio / video
- Audio: Kimiko Hahn reads "Sparrow" from the book The Narrow Road to the Interior
- Audio: Kimiko Hahn reads "Cope's Rule" from the book Toxic Flora
- Bumble Bees,” podcast, One Earth.
- Kimiko Hahn at YouTube
- Books
- Kimiko Hahn at Amazon.com
- About
- Kimiko Hahn (b.1955) in the Heath Anthology of American Literature
- Kimiko Hahn in conversation with Emily Moore at Loggernaut. Fall 2006.
- Kimiko Hahn interviewed by Laurie Sheck: BOMB Magazine
- The Poetry of Science Interview in the New York Times TierneyLab Blog, July 14, 2009.
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