From page to stage: New York poet Kimiko Hahn visits MSU for an evening of poetry, insight
Contact: Sarah Nicholas
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Kimiko Hahn, New York state poet and acclaimed author of nearly a dozen collections of poetry, will join Mississippi State University as a visiting writer on Tuesday, Feb. 17 for a special night of selected readings and celebration of the written word.
Free and open to the public, the event sponsored by MSU’s College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of English is at 5:30 p.m. in McCool Hall’s Taylor Auditorium.
Following a Q&A session, attendees will have the opportunity to purchase signed copies of Hahn’s latest work.
“Kimiko Hahn’s expansive and innovative poetry interrogates the intersections of identity, science and language,” said Assistant Professor of English Samyak Shertok, whose debut poetry collection “No Rhododendron” (2025 University of Pittsburgh Press) was selected by Hahn for the 2024 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Donald Hall Prize for Poetry.
Professor Becky Hagenston, director of the English department’s creative writing program, said, “We are thrilled to welcome Kimiko Hahn to Mississippi State, where she will share her insight and creativity with students, faculty and the broader Starkville community.”
Hahn is the author of “The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems,” a 2024 W.W. Norton publication, and has received numerous honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the PEN/Voelcker Award, Shelley Memorial Prize, the Poetry Foundation’s Ruth Lilly Lifetime Achievement Award and the American Book Award. She is a distinguished professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Queens College, City University of New York.
For more details about the Department of English and the College of Arts and Sciences, visit www.english.msstate.edu www.cas.msstate.edu.
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