 While her work looks deeply at the inner world of the self and emotions, Hirshfield has kept most of the details of her private life out of both her poems and her public life as a poet, preferring that her work stand on its own.Hirshfield's work has been published in "The New Yorker", "Atlantic Monthly", "The Nation", the "Los Angeles Times", the "Times Literary Supplement", the "New York Times", many literary journals, and multiple volumes of The "Best American Poetry" and Pushcart Prize anthologies.Her poems have frequently been read on various National Public Radio programs, and she was featured in two Bill Moyers PBS television specials, "The Sounds of Poetry" and "Fooling With Words".