Tony Hoagland
{{Short description|American poet (1953–2018)}}
Anthony Dey Hoagland (November 19, 1953 – October 23, 2018) was an American poet. His poetry collection, What Narcissism Means to Me (2003), was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other honors included 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.
Biography
Hoagland was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 1953. His father was an Army doctor, so Hoagland grew up on various military bases in Hawaii, Alabama, Ethiopia, and Texas. He had an older sister, and a twin brother who died of a drug overdose in high school.{{cite web |url=https://www.pshares.org/issues/winter-2009-10/about-tony-hoagland |title=About Tony Hoagland |last=Grotz |first=Jennifer |date=2010 |issue=110 |website= Ploughshares is published by Emerson College in Boston |access-date=24 October 2018}} 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, followed the Grateful Dead and became a Buddhist." He taught in the University of Houston creative writing program. He was also on the faculty of the low-residency Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pw.org/about-us/news_releases/tony_hoagland_awarded_jackson_poetry_prize |title=Tony Hoagland Awarded Jackson Poetry Prize {{!}} Poets & Writers|website=www.pw.org|date=4 April 2008|language=en|access-date=2017-07-26}} Hoagland was married to Kathleen Lee, author of fiction, essays and travel writings. They had no children. He died in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 23, 2018 from pancreatic cancer at the age of 64.{{cite web |url=http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/112 |title=Tony Hoagland |last= |first= |date=2018 |issue= |website=Academy of American Poets |access-date=24 October 2018}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/24/obituaries/tony-hoagland-dead.html |title=Tony Hoagland, Poet With a Wry Outlook, Is Dead at 64 |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |date=2018 |issue= |website=New York Times |access-date=24 October 2018}}
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)".{{cite web |url=https://miriamswell.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/tony-hoagland-interview/ |title=Tony Hoagland Interview |last=Sagan |first=Miriam |date=2010 |website=Miriam's Well: Poetry, Land Art, and Beyond |access-date=24 October 2018}}
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."
In 2010, Dwight Garner, a New York Times critic, wrote of Mr. Hoagland: “His erudite comic poems are backloaded with heartache and longing, and they function, emotionally, like improvised explosive devices: The pain comes at you from the cruelest angles, on the sunniest of days.”
Published works
{{Main|Tony Hoagland bibliography}}
Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
=Full-length poetry collections=
- 2022: Turn Up the Ocean, Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, {{ISBN|978-1-64445-092-5}}
- 2018: Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God, Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, {{ISBN|978-1-55597-807-5}}
- 2017: Recent Changes in the Vernacular, Espanola, NM: Tres Chicas Books, {{ISBN|978-1-89300-317-0}}
- 2015: Application for Release from the Dream, Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press, {{ISBN|978-1-55597-718-4}}
- 2010: Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, {{ISBN|978-1-55597-549-4}}
- 2003: What Narcissism Means to Me, St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, {{ISBN|978-1-55597-386-5}}
- 1998: Donkey Gospel, St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, {{ISBN|978-1-55597-268-4}}
- 1992: Sweet Ruin, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, {{ISBN|978-0-29913-584-3}}
=Chapbooks & Broadsides=
- 2018: Into The Mystery, Cambridge, MA: Yellow Moon Press
- 2014: Don't Tell Anyone, Venice, CA: Hollyridge Press
- 2009: Little Oceans, Venice, CA: Hollyridge Press
- 2005: Hard Rain, Venice, CA: Hollyridge Press
- 1990: History of Desire, Tucson, AZ: Moon Pony Press
- 1986: Talking to Stay Warm, Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press
- 1985: A Change in Plans, Sierra Vista, CA: San Pedro Press
=Essay collections=
- 2020: The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice, (posthumous, with Kay Cosgrove). New York City, NY: W. W. Norton & Company {{ISBN| 978-0-39335-791-2}}
- 2014: Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays, St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, {{ISBN|978-1-55597-694-1}}
- 2006: Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft, St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, {{ISBN|978-1-55597-455-8}}
Honors and awards
- 2008 Jackson Poetry Prize[http://www.pw.org/about-us/news_releases/tony_hoagland_awarded_jackson_poetry_prize Poets & Writers > Tony Hoagland Awarded Jackson Poetry Prize]{{cite web |url=http://thepotomacjournal.com/review-TonyHoagland.htm |title=Tony Hoagland Sends His Love |last=McCullough |first=Laura |date=2009 |issue= |website=The Potomac: A Journal of Poetry and Politics |access-date=24 October 2018}} awarded by Poets & Writers
- 2005 O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize awarded by Folger Shakespeare Library
- 2005 Mark Twain Award awarded by The Poetry Foundation
- 2002 Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters
- 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry{{cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=tony+hoagland&lower_bound=1925&upper_bound=2009&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=0&y=0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603235524/http://www.gf.org/fellows/results?query=tony+hoagland&lower_bound=1925&upper_bound=2009&competition=ALL&fellowship_category=ALL&x=0&y=0 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2011-06-03 |title=Tony Hoagland |last= |first= |date=2000 |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=25 October 2018}} awarded by John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- 1997 James Laughlin Award Academy of American Poets for Donkey Gospel
- 1994 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry
- 1994 John C. Zacharis First Book Award[http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=3801 Ploughshares Authors & Articles > Tony Hoagland, Zacharis Award > by Don Lee] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071013073741/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=3801 |date=October 13, 2007 }} from Ploughshares for Sweet Ruin
- 1992 Brittingham Prize in Poetry for Sweet Ruin awarded by University of Wisconsin–Madison
- 1987 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry
Controversy
On February 4, 2011, Claudia Rankine presented a reading{{cite web |url=https://poets.org/text/open-letter-dialogue-race-and-poetry |title=Open Letter: A Dialogue on Race and Poetry |last=Rankine |first=Claudia |website=Academy of American Poets |access-date=14 May 2020}} critical of how race is handled in Hoagland's poem "The Change"{{cite web |url=https://poets.org/poem/change |title=The Change |last=Hoagland |first=Tony |website=Academy of American Poets |access-date=14 May 2020}} at the Associated Writing Programs Conference. Hoagland issued an open letter in response.{{cite web |url=https://poets.org/text/dear-claudia-letter-response |title=Dear Claudia: A Letter in Response |last=Hoagland |first=Tony |website=Academy of American Poets |access-date=14 May 2020}}
References
External links
- [http://www.poetry.la/page205.html VIDEO: PoetryL.A. > Tony Hoagland Reading at The Geffen in Westwood, CA, 2/16/09]
- {{YouTube|BSDh01zwed0|Tony Hoagland Reading at the 2006 Dodge Poetry Festival}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090508024823/http://www.blueflowerarts.com/thoagland.html Blue Flower Arts > Author's Booking Agency > Author Bio]
- [http://www.graywolfpress.org/index.php?option=com_phpshop&page=shop.author&product_id=154&author_id=45 Graywolf Press > Tony Hoagland Author Page]
- [http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-sc200704 Correspondence with Gerald Stern]
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