Five books of his 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--winner of the 2001 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 are 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 Andrea Molesini) may be found in The Literary Review (Farleigh Dickinson), Modern Poetry in Translation (King's College London), International Poetry Review (UNC Greensboro), Gradiva (SUNY Stony Brook), Poetry International (UCSD), Journal of Italian Translation (Brooklyn College), Italian Poetry Review (Columbia University), and Chicago Quarterly Review. Along with his collaborator, Michela Martini, he is completing a collection of the poetry of Edoardo Sanguineti.
His 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 fellowship from The MacDowell Foundation for his work on Tintoretto and Venice.
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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