Kimiko Hahn

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Kimiko Hahn
Born	1955 Mount Kisco, New York
Nationality	USA
Genres	poetry
Notable award(s)	American Book Award PEN/Voelcker Award

Kimiko Hahn (born 1955 outside New York City) is an American poet and instructor of poetry.

Contents 1 Personal 2 Bibliography 3 Awards 4 Poems on line 5 Notes 6 See also 7 External links 8 Critical Studies

[edit] 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 N.Y.U. and University of Houston.

Hahn also received the 2008 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.

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.

[edit] Bibliography

• Air Pocket. Hanging Loose Press, 1989. ISBN 091461052X ISBN 978-0914610526
• Earshot. Hanging Loose Press, 1992. ISBN 0914610848 ISBN 978-0914610847
• The Unbearable Heart. Kaya Press, 1995. ISBN 1885030010 ISBN 978-1885030016
• Volatile. Hanging Loose Press, 1999. ISBN 1882413571 ISBN 978-1882413577
• Mosquito and Ant: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. ISBN 0393047326 ISBN 978-0393047325
• The Artist's Daughter: Poems New York: W.W. Norton, 2002. ISBN 0393051021 ISBN 978-0393051025
• The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. ISBN 0393061892 ISBN 978-0393061895
• "A Field Guide to the Intractable: Zuihitsu." New York: Small Anchor Press chapbook, 2009.
• "Toxic Flora: Poems." New York: W.W. Norton, forthcoming 2010. ISBN-10: 0393076628 ISBN-13: 978-0393076622

With Gale Jackson and Susan Sherman

• We Stand Our Ground: Three Women, Their Vision, Their Poems. Ikon, Inc., 1988. ISBN 0945368011 ISBN 978-0945368014

[edit] Awards

Aside from the PEN/Voelcker Award in 2008, Hahn has received an American Book Award, an Association of Asian America Studies Literature Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, a Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, and the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her fellowships include those from The National Endowment for the Arts and the N.Y. Foundation for the Arts.

[edit] Poems on line

• “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

<http://www.storyscapejournal.com/index.html>

• "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

[edit] Notes

[edit] See also

• List of Asian American writers

[edit] External links

• Audio: Kimiko Hahn reads "Sparrow" from the book The Narrow Road to the Interior (via poemsoutloud.net)
• Short biography on Academy of American Poets site, http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1536
• Heath Anthology author site http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/hahn_ki.html
• Interview http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/interviews/aap/hahn_kimiko.html
• Kimiko Hahn in conversation with Emily Moore at Loggernaut. Fall 2006.
• "Kimiko Hahn interviewed by Laurie Sheck: BOMB magazine" http://www.bombsite.com/issues/96/articles/2834
• "Interview," The Poetry of Science in the New York Times TierneyLab, July 14, 2009.

[edit] Critical Studies

1. 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)
2. 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)
3. '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)
4. 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)
5. 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)
6. 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)
7. To Adore a Fragment: An Interview with Kimiko Hahn By: Kalamaras, George; Bloomsbury Review, 1999 Mar-Apr; 19 (2): 13-14. (journal article)
8. 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)