Tony Hoagland

Anthony Dey Hoagland (born November 19, 1953) is an American poet and writer. His poetry collection 2003, What Narcissism Means to Me, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Other honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts,[1] a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry,[2] and a fellowship to the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center.[3] His poems and criticism have appeared in such publications as Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, Agni, Threepenny Review,[4] The Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter, Southern Indiana Review, American Poetry Review, and Harvard Review.

Biography

Hoagland was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina. His father was an Army doctor, and Hoagland grew up on various military bases throughout the South. He was educated at Williams College, the University of Iowa (B.A.), and the University of Arizona (M.F.A.). According to the novelist Don Lee, Hoagland "attended and dropped out of several colleges, picked apples and cherries in the Northwest, lived in communes, [and] followed the Grateful Dead . . ."[5] He currently teaches in the University of Houston creative writing program. He is also on the faculty of the Warren Wilson College low-residency MFA program.[6]

Literary Influences and Praise

In an interview with Miriam Sagan about his poetic influences, Hoagland said, "if I were going to place myself on some aesthetic graph, my dot would be equidistant between Sharon Olds and Frank O’Hara, between the confessional (where I started) and the social (where I have aimed myself)".[7] In a 2002 citation regarding Hoagland's award in Literature, The American Academy of Arts and Letters said that "Hoagland's imagination ranges thrillingly across manners, morals, sexual doings, and kinds of speech lyrical and candid, intimate as well as wild."

Published works

Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

Full-Length Poetry Collections
Chapbooks
Essay Collections

Anthologies

Honors and awards

References

  1. ↑ Literature Fellowships > Forty Years of Supporting American Writers > Past Recipients
  2. ↑ John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation > Fellowship Recipient Search
  3. ↑ Academy of American Poets > Tony Hoagland Bio
  4. ↑ Threepenny Review > Winter 2009 >Rabbit by Tony Hoagland
  5. ↑ [http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=3801 Ploughshares Authors & Articles > Tony Hoagland, Zacharis Award > by Don Lee Archived October 13, 2007 at the Wayback Machine
  6. ↑ Poets & Writers > Tony Hoagland Awarded Jackson Poetry Prize
  7. ↑ Tres Chicas Books > Miriam Sagan Interviews Tony Hoagland
  8. ↑ Poets & Writers > Tony Hoagland Awarded Jackson Poetry Prize
  9. ↑ The Potomac: A Journal of Poetry and Politics > Winter 2009 > Tony Hoagland Sends His Love by Laura McCullough
  10. ↑ Ploughshares Authors & Articles > Tony Hoagland, Zacharis Award > by Don Lee Archived October 13, 2007 at the Wayback Machine

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