Kimiko Hahn
Encyclopedia
Kimiko Hahn is an American
poet and instructor of poetry.
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.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
poet and instructor of poetry.
Personal
Hahn received a bachelor's degree from the University of IowaUniversity of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...
and an M.A. from Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
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She is a distinguished professor at Queens College, CUNY and has also taught at New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
, and University of Houston
University of Houston
The University of Houston is a state research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. Founded in 1927, it is Texas's third-largest university with nearly 40,000 students. Its campus spans 667 acres in southeast Houston, and was known as University of...
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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
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
, and her father is German-American from Wisconsin. Her sister is the ethnomusicologist and performer, Tomie Hahn.
Awards
- 2008 PEN/Voelcker Award for PoetryPEN/Voelcker Award for PoetryThe PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry is given biennially to an American poet whose distinguished and growing body of work to date represents a notable and accomplished presence in American literature.Awardees:...
. - 2008 American Book AwardAmerican Book AwardThe American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre...
- Association of Asian America Studies Literature Award
- Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award
- Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry PrizeTheodore Roethke Memorial Poetry PrizeThe Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize is an American poetry prize given once every three years since being established in 1967.The Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize has been offered in Saginaw, Michigan, since 1965. It is now administered by Saginaw Valley State University...
- Shelley Memorial AwardShelley Memorial AwardThe Shelley Memorial Award of more than $3,500, given out by the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of the late Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The prize is given to a living American poet selected with reference to genius and need. The selection is...
from the Poetry Society of AmericaPoetry Society of AmericaThe Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists including Witter Bynner. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent... - The National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
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
Critical Studies
- 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 YauJohn YauJohn Yau is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978...
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 ZuihitsuZuihitsuis a genre of Japanese literature consisting of loosely connected personal essays and fragmented ideas that typically respond to the author's surroundings...
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 IrigarayLuce IrigarayLuce Irigaray is a Belgian feminist, philosopher, linguist, psychoanalyst, sociologist and cultural theorist. She is best known for her works Speculum of the Other Woman and This Sex Which Is Not One .-Biography:...
'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)
External links
- 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
- Heath Anthology author site
- Kimiko Hahn in conversation with Emily Moore at LoggernautLoggernautLoggernaut Reading Series is a reading series in Portland, Oregon founded in 2005. Each reading features three readers and a prompt to which they respond....
. 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.