Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht, a historian and poet, is the award-winning and bestselling author of the histories Doubt, Stay, The Happiness Myth, and The End of the Soul. Her poetry books include Who Said, The Next Ancient World, and Funny. She earned her PhD in history from Columbia University and teaches in New York City. The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives is her latest book.

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Schedule Of Events:

- 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
SEEKING MEANING AND CONNECTION
- 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Location of Session: East Terrace
Adult Sessions

SEEKING MEANING AND CONNECTION
- 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
- Location of Session: East Terrace
- Start of Signing: 4:00 pm
- Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

Book by Jennifer Michael Hecht

The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives

"The Wonder Paradox" offers a lively, practical, and transcendent roadmap to meaning and connection through poetry.

In twenty chapters built from years of questions and conversation with those looking for an authentic and meaningful life, Hecht offers ways to excavate the useful aspects of tradition and to replace what no longer feels true. Through cultures and poetic wisdom from around the world—Sappho, Rumi, Shakespeare, Issa, Tagore, Frost, Szymborska, Angelou, and others—she blends literary criticism with spiritual guidance rooted in the everyday. Linking our needs to particular poems, she helps us better understand those needs, ourselves, and poetry.