User:Paul Hoover
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Paul Hoover is an American poet born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1946. After many years as Poet in Residence at Columbia College Chicago, he accepted the position of Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University in 2003. He lives in Mill Valley, California, with his wife, the poet and fiction writer Maxine Chernoff.
Hoover has published eleven poetry collections, a book of literary essays, and a novel. He has also co-translated three volumes of poetry that are forthcoming in 2008. Beginning with the most recent, his publications are:
Edge and Fold(poetry). Berkeley: Apogee Press, 2006; Poems in Spanish(poetry). Richmond, CA: Omnidawn Publishing, 2005; Nominated for the Bay Area Book Award; Fables of Representation (Essays); Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004; Winter (Mirror) (poetry); Chicago: Flood Editions, 2002; Rehearsal in Black (poetry); Cambridge, England: Salt Publications, 2001; Totem and Shadow: New & Selected Poems; Jersey City: Talisman House, 1999; Viridian (poetry). Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1997, Winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series competition; Postmodern American Poetry (anthology). New York: W. W. Norton, 1994; The Novel: A Poem. New York: New Directions, 1991; Saigon, Illinois (novel). New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1988, a chapter of which appeared in The New Yorker; Idea (poetry). Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1987; Nervous Songs (poetry). Seattle: L'Epervier Press, 1986; Somebody Talks a Lot (poetry). Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1983; and Letter to Einstein Beginning Dear Albert (poetry). Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1979.
Forthcoming translations are:
Selected Poetry of Friedrich Holderlin, edited and translated with Maxine Chernoff (Omnidawn Publishing); Hanoi Misses You: An Anthology of Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry (Milkweed Editions); Thirty-Three Poems of Nguyen Trai, bilingual edition edited and translated with Nguyen Do, with photographs by Vietnam's leading poet, Nguyen Duy (Saigon Cultural Publisher).
He is widely known as editor, with Maxine Chernoff, of the literary magazine New American Writing, published once a year in association with San Francisco State University. The magazine's website is www.newamericanwriting.com.
He wrote the script for the 1994 independent film Viridian, directed by Joseph Ramirez, which was screened at The Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hamburg Film Festival.
He serves as curator of a new poetry series at the DeYoung Museum of Art in San Francisco. International in its focus, the series first season, Spring 2007, features Jacques Roubaud, Anne Carson, and Robert Hass.
He was a founder, former president, and long-time board member of the Midwest’s leading independent poetry reading series, The Poetry Center at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2004.
In 2002, he won the Jerome J. Shestack Award for the best poems to appear in American Poetry Review that year. He won the Carl Sandburg Award, Chicago's leading literary prize, for his 1987 collection, Idea and the l984 General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers for poems later included in Nervous Songs. In 1980, he was awarded an NEA Fellowship in poetry.
His poetry has appeared in the literary magazinesAmerican Poetry Review, Triquarterly, Conjunctions, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Sulfur, The New Republic, Hambone, and The Iowa Review, among others. It has also appeared in numerous anthologies including five volumes of the annual anthology The Best American Poetry (Scribners).
