

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: An Evening with Edward Hirsch!
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Event Description**: We are over the moon to welcome acclaimed poet, memoirist, professor, and President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Edward Hirsch to Secret World Books Thursday, March 19 at 7pm in celebration of his latest book My Childhood in Pieces: A Stand-Up Comedy, a Skokie Elegy.

Hirsch's comic microbursts of prose deliver a whole childhood, at the hands of an aspiring middle-class Jewish family whose hard-boiled American values and wit were the forge of a poet’s coming-of-age in Skokie.

Affectionate, deadpan, and exuberant, steeped in Yiddishkeit and Midwestern practicality, Hirsch’s laugh-and-cry performance animates a heartbreaking odyssey, from the cradle to the day he leaves home, armed with sorrow and a huge store of poetic wit.

Don't miss the beautiful opportunity to be in the presence of this esteemed poet, author, educator, and Skokie-bred mensch!
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/highland-park/an-evening-with-edward-hirsch/200029828818941
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, comedy, workshops, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 11

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: http://facebook.com/200029828818941?utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=highland+park-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Highland Park
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1774 2nd St, Highland Park, IL, United States, Illinois 60035
- **lat**: 42.18455
- **long**: -87.80088
- **full address**: 1774 2nd St, Highland Park, IL, United States, Illinois 60035

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Secret World Books (https://allevents.in/org/secret-world-books/24483599)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 19 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-05:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1774 2nd St, Highland Park, IL, United States, Illinois 60035
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Secret World Books
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, comedy, workshops, entertainment
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about An Evening with Edward Hirsch! ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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