I Open The Window
Jane Hirshfield reflects on interior and exterior worlds in a poem from her latest collection.
Jane Hirshfield
Jane Hirshfield is a poet, essayist, editor, translator, and Tricycle contributing editor. She practiced at San Francisco Zen Center, Tassajara, and Green Gulch Farm between 1974 and 1982 and received lay ordination in 1979.
Abiding in the Asking
Poet Jane Hirshfield discusses poetry’s power to lower the barricades between ourselves and other beings.
CultureMagazine | Openings, Poetry
The Asking
Sometimes it’s the questions, not the answers, that give us nourishment.
Approaching Life’s Unanswerable Questions
Poet Jane Hirshfield discusses her latest book, Ledger, resisting despair in our current times, and remaining open to life’s mysteries.
Advice to Myself
"the screen / stays backlit and empty / thus I meet myself again / hopeful and useless / a mystery"
Felt in Its Fullness
An interview with poet and Soto Zen practitioner Jane Hirshfield
Magazine | Dedication of Merit
A Blessing for Wedding
Today when persimmons ripenToday when fox-kits come out of their den into snowToday when the spotted egg releases its wren songToday when the maple sets down its red leavesToday when windows keep their promise to openToday…
To Speech
This first, this last:there’s nothing you wouldn’t say. Unshockable inclusion your most pure nature,and so you are like an iron pot—whatever’s put in, it holds. We think it’s the fire that…
CultureMagazine | Special Section
Happiness in Verse
Three Poems by Jane Hirshfield
Podcasts
“Don’t Despair of This Falling World”
In this episode of Tricycle Talks, poet Jane Hirshfield discusses poetry’s power to hold unanswered questions—and to transform our anger and incomprehension into compassion.
Listen Now on Tricycle | iTunes | SoundCloud
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