Name Tony Hoagland | Role Poet | |
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Education University of Arizona (1983), Williams College Awards James Laughlin Award, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, John C. Zacharis First Book Award Nominations National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, Goodreads Choice Awards Best Poetry Books What Narcissism Means to, Donkey Gospel, Unincorporated Persons in the Late, Real Sofistikashun, Sweet ruin | ||
Tony hoagland articulate deformity poet as a wounded citizen
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. His other honors include two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, and a fellowship to the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center. His poems and criticism have appeared in such publications as Poetry Magazine, Ploughshares, Agni, Threepenny Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter, Southern Indiana Review, American Poetry Review and Harvard Review.
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- Tony hoagland articulate deformity poet as a wounded citizen
- Tony hoagland
- Biography
- Literary Influences and Praise
- Published works
- Honors and awards
- References
Tony hoagland
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 . . ." He currently teaches in the University of Houston creative writing program. He is also on the faculty of the low-residency Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
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)". 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:
Anthologies