He is currently completing a new book entitled Burying Mary Baker Eddy: a memoir of death and doubt.
His most recent book, The Naked Acrobat, the Selected Poems of Edoardo Sanguineti (translated with Michela Martini), is forthcoming from Italica Press (2012).
Five books of his own poetry have appeared to date, most recently All Clear (South Carolina) and No Messages (Notre Dame).
His poems have appeared widely in periodicals, including 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, and The New Republic.
Parts of his sequence of essays on Tintoretto and 16th-century Venice have appeared in Southwest Review, The Massachusetts Review, TriQuarterly, Raritan, and The Yale Review. His essays on translation, poetry, fiction, painting, and film have appeared or are forthcoming in Parnassus, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The Sewanee Review, Film Quarterly, Boston Review, The Kenyon Review, and The American Scholar.
Periodical appearances of his translations of poetry from the Italian (Giorgio Caproni, Edoardo Sanguineti, Gabriella Leto, and others), also in collaboration with Michela Martini, have included The Literary Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, Modern Poetry in Translation, International Poetry Review, Gradiva, Poetry International, Journal of Italian Translation, Literary Imagination, and Italian Poetry Review.
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, a Notable Essay in Best American Essays, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and residential fellowships at Bogliasco and MacDowell.
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He has been a faculty member and administrator at Simon's Rock of Bard College, Trinity College, and Harvard University, as well as president of Johnson State College in Vermont. He lives in Boston's North End with his wife, Nicole Rafter.
Contact information:
44 Prince Street, No. 104
Boston MA 02113
Land line: 617 523 0273
Cell: 857 225 0421
Email: robert.hahn@yahoo.com