[ [http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/ENGLISH/Staff/hahn.html CUNY Queens College English Department - Kimiko Hahn] ] .]Hahn also received the 2008 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry.
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.
Bibliography
* "Air Pocket." Hanging Loose Press, 1989. ISBN 091461052X ISBN 978-0914610526
* "Earshot." Hanging Loose Press, 1992. ISBN 0914610848 ISBN 978-0914610847
* "The Unbearable Heart." Kaya Press, 1995. ISBN 1885030010 ISBN 978-1885030016
* "Volatile." Hanging Loose Press, 1999. ISBN 1882413571 ISBN 978-1882413577
* "Mosquito and Ant: Poems." New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. ISBN 0393047326 ISBN 978-0393047325
* "The Artist's Daughter: Poems" New York: W.W. Norton, 2002. ISBN 0393051021 ISBN 978-0393051025
* "The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems." New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. ISBN 0393061892 ISBN 978-0393061895
With Gale Jackson and Susan Sherman
* "We Stand Our Ground: : Three Women, Their Vision, Their Poems." Ikon, Inc., 1988. ISBN 0945368011 ISBN 978-0945368014
Awards
Aside from the PEN/Voelcker Award in 2008, Hahn has received an American Book Award, an Association of Asian America Studies Literature Award, a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Award, a Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize, and the Shelley Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Her fellowships include those from The National Endowment for the Arts and the N.Y. Foundation for the Arts.
Poems on line
* “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
Notes
See also
*List of Asian American writers
References
* Yamammoto, Traise, "Masking Selves, Making Subjects": " Japanese American Women, Identity, and the Body". 1999
* Short biography on Academy of American Poets site, http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/1536
* Heath Anthology author site http://college.hmco.com/english/lauter/heath/4e/students/author_pages/contemporary/hahn_ki.html
* Interview http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/interviews/aap/hahn_kimiko.html
* [http://www.loggernaut.org/interviews/kimikohahn Kimiko Hahn in conversation with Emily Moore] at "Loggernaut". Fall 2006.
* "Kimiko Hahn interviewed by Laurie Sheck: BOMB magazine" http://www.bombsite.com/issues/96/articles/2834
* "Kimiko Hahn interviewed by Adam Wiedewitsch," Teachers & Writers, spring 2007, vol. 38, no. 3
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)
