The Mississippi State University College of Arts & Sciences and the Department of English are proud to sponsor an evening with poet Kimiko Hahn at Taylor Auditorium in McCool Hall. After a reading from her 2024 collection The Ghost Forest, attendees will have the opportunity for a Q&A and book signing.

Kimiko Hahn is the author of ten books of poems, including: Foreign Bodies (W. W. Norton, 2020); Brain Fever (WWN, 2014), and Toxic Flora (WWN, 2010), both collections prompted by science; The Narrow Road to the Interior (WWN, 2006) a collection that takes its title from Basho’s famous poetic journal; The Unbearable Heart (Kaya, 1996), which received an American Book Award; Earshot (Hanging Loose Press, 1992), which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize and an Association of Asian American Studies Literature Award.

Honors: New York State Poet, Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Voelcker Award, Shelley Memorial Prize, The Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award, The American Book Award

Biographical information from https://kimikohahn.com/