Click on this link and you'll view an online version of Hacker's energetic poem, "Found in Translation (for Claire Malroux)," along with a short biography of the award-winning writer. You can also access a host of links to reviews of a selection of her books.

Academy of American Poets: Marilyn Hacker
http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=93

This Webpage features a good biography of Hacker followed by two full-text versions of her work, a poem titled "For K.J., Leaving and Coming Back," (which can be heard in RealAudio) and the citation she wrote to the winner of the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. Also included on this page are links to other Marilyn Hacker exhibits elsewhere on the web.

Poetry Daily: Marilyn Hacker
http://www.poems.com/squarhac.htm

Visit this site, and you'll be treated to ten short reviews of Hacker's collection Squares and Courtyards. Also, as an added bonus, you can read an online version of a selection from the book, hauntingly titled "Scars on Paper." A good way to become acclimated to Hacker's poetry.

BIOGRAPHY
Marilyn Hacker (b. 1942) was born in New York City, and being somewhat of a child prodigy, enrolled at New York University at the age of 15. After earning her B.A. Hacker began to send her poetry to literary journals. The response to her formalist/feminist poetry was positive, and in 1974 she published her first collection, Presentation Piece, a Lamont Poetry Selection and winner of the National Book Award. Her reputation continued to grow as she published other collections throughout the 1970s and 1980s, and in 1990 she started an influential stint as the editor for the Kenyon Review, publishing many poems from minority and marginalized writers. In 1994 she published Winter Numbers, a dark and powerful book about being a lesbian in America, AIDS, and her struggle with breast cancer. The book was honored with the prestigious Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Lambda Literary Award. Her latest collection is Squares and Courtyards (2000), and since 1997 she has taught English at Hofstra University.