Presentation Piece

Marilyn Hacker (born November 27, 1942) is an American poet, translator, and critic, best known for her formalist poetry blending traditional forms like sonnets and villanelles with contemporary themes of love, feminism, exile, and illness, as seen in notable works such as Presentation Piece (1974, National Book Award winner), Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons (1986), and Winter Numbers (1994, Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize). She has received numerous accolades, including the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry (2010), multiple Lambda Literary Awards, and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Ingram Merrill Foundations, and continues to publish and read publicly as of 2026.