Poet Kimiko Hahn to Give Reading at Bryn Mawr College

Poet Kimiko Hahn will give a reading at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 19, in the Ely Room, at 's Wyndham Alumnae House.

The reading is free and open to the public and part of Bryn Mawr's Creative Writing Program Reading Series. 

Hahn is the author of nine volumes of poetry, most recently Toxic Flora. She is the winner of the PEN/Voelcker Award, the American Book Award, and the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize.  

The poet Mark Doty has praised her work for its “rigorous intelligence, fierce anger, and deep vulnerability.” 

Hahn’s poems appear in The New Yorker, The Kenyon Review, Ploughshares and many other magazines, and she is a distinguished professor in the English department at Queens College/CUNY.

This reading has been made possible with the support of the Jane Flanders Fund and the Marianne Moore Fund for the Study of Poetry.

Special thanks to Matt Gray at Bryn Mawr College for providing this story.