Five books of Hahn's poetry have been published. The most recent are All Clear (University of South Carolina Press, 1996, with an introduction by Richard Howard) and No Messages (University of Notre Dame Press, 2001, winner of the Sandeen Prize). His poems have appeared in The Yale Review, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, Boston Review, The Iowa Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, Harper's Magazine, Notre Dame Review, Chicago Review, Ontario Review, Partisan Review, Prairie Schooner, Agni, Margie, and The New Republic, as well as other journals and anthologies.
His creative non-fiction, essays, and memoirs have been widely published. Selections from his book in progress on Tintoretto and 16th-century Venice have appeared in Southwest Review, The Massachusetts Review, TriQuarterly, Raritan, and The Yale Review. His writing on translation, poetry, painting, and film has appeared in Parnassus, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, The Antioch Review, Kenyon Review, Denver Quarterly, The Sewanee Review, Film Quarterly, and Boston Review.
His translations of Italian poetry (Giorgio Caproni, Edoardo Sanguineti, Gabriella Leto, and others) may be found in The Literary Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, International Poetry Review, Gradiva, Poetry International, and Journal of Italian Translation. Along with his collaborator, Michela Martini, he is completing a collection of the poetry of Edoardo Sanguineti; a representative selection of their work appears in the current issue of Italian Poetry Review (Columbia University).
Hahn's grants and awards include The Ernest Sandeen Award (University of Notre Dame), the Chelsea Magazine Award, The Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize (Keats-Shelley Society, England), Southwest Review's Best Essay award, and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and The Bogliasco Foundation. Most recently he received a residency fellowship at The MacDowell Foundation.
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Robert Hahn has been a faculty member and administrator at Simon's Rock of Bard College, Trinity College, Harvard University, and other institutions. Before leaving academia to focus on writing, he served for a decade as president of Johnson State College in Vermont. He is married to Nicole Rafter, a criminologist; their children are Alex Hahn and Sarah Hahn.
Contact information:
44 Prince Street, No. 104
Boston MA 02113
Land line: 617 523 0273
Cell: 857 225 0421
Email: robert.hahn@yahoo.com