Kimiko Hahn

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 Mount Kisco, New York) is an American poet and instructor of poetry.^[1]

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 New York University, and University of Houston.^[2]

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.^[3]

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.^[4]

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Bibliography

Air Pocket. Hanging Loose Press, 1989. ISBN 0-914610-52-X ISBN 978-0914610526
Earshot. Hanging Loose Press, 1992. ISBN 0-914610-84-8 ISBN 978-0914610847
The Unbearable Heart. Kaya Press, 1995. ISBN 1-885030-01-0 ISBN 978-1885030016
Volatile. Hanging Loose Press, 1999. ISBN 1-882413-57-1 ISBN 978-1882413577
Mosquito and Ant: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. ISBN 0-393-04732-6 ISBN 978-0393047325
The Artist's Daughter: Poems New York: W.W. Norton, 2002. ISBN 0-393-05102-1 ISBN 978-0393051025
The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. ISBN 0-393-06189-2 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, 2010. ISBN 0-393-07662-8 ISBN 978-0393076622

With Gale Jackson and Susan Sherman

We Stand Our Ground: Three Women, Their Vision, Their Poems. Ikon, Inc., 1988. ISBN 0-945368-01-1 ISBN 978-0945368014

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Awards

2008 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.
2008 American Book Award
Association of Asian America Studies Literature Award
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award
Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize
Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America
The National Endowment for the Arts fellowships
N.Y. Foundation for the Arts fellowships
2010 Guggenheim Fellow

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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 <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

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Notes

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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 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)
'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 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)
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)
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)