To read poet Marilyn Hacker’s work is to enter a landscape both wild and artfully contained, where classic forms of poetry are no longer emissaries from a lost world of meticulous manners and pristine ...

Marilyn Lou (Markey) Hacker, 70, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by her family on Saturday June 28, 2025. She was born in York PA on August 28, 1954, and was the beloved daughter of Darlene ...

Hacker (A Different Distance) reaffirms her mastery of form in this skilled outing. Here, the sonnet stretches to hold a life lived across languages, borders, and political identities. Public unrest ...

"You are student and a citizen/ of whatever state is transient -- Which language, after all, is yours?" writes Marilyn Hacker in the title poem in her latest collection, "Desesperanto: Poems 1999-2002 ...