Jack Hirschman

Jack Hirschman (December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021) was an American Marxist poet, essayist and social activist. He wrote more than 100 volumes of poetry and essays. He was born in New York City. 

In 2006, Hirschman was made Poet Laureate of San Francisco by Mayor Gavin Newsom. 

His best known poetry volumes were A Correspondence of Americans (Indiana U. Press, 1960), Black Alephs (Trigram Press, 1969), Lyripol (City Lights, 1976), The Bottom Line (Curbstone, 1988), and Endless Threshold (Curbstone, 1992).

Hirschman suddenly died at his home in San Francisco on August 22, 2021, aged 87. He died a few minutes before the start of his speaking in the last of a regular online interview as the World Poetry Movement coordinator board.

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List of poets from North America

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