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.
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Biography
Hoagland was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 1953.[ 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.]
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."[
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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.”[
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Published works
Each year links to its corresponding "year in poetry" article:
Full-length poetry collections
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2022: Turn Up the Ocean, Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press,
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2018: Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God, Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press,
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2017: Recent Changes in the Vernacular, Espanola, NM: Tres Chicas Books,
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2015: Application for Release from the Dream, Minneapolis, MN: Graywolf Press,
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2010: Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press,
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2003: What Narcissism Means to Me, St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press,
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1998: Donkey Gospel, St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press,
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1992: Sweet Ruin, Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press,
Chapbooks & Broadsides
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2018: Into The Mystery, Cambridge, MA: Yellow Moon Press
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2014: Don't Tell Anyone, Venice, CA: Hollyridge Press
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2009: Little Oceans, Venice, CA: Hollyridge Press
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2005: Hard Rain, Venice, CA: Hollyridge Press
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1990: History of Desire, Tucson, AZ: Moon Pony Press
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1986: Talking to Stay Warm, Minneapolis, MN: Coffee House Press
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1985: A Change in Plans, Sierra Vista, CA: San Pedro Press
Essay collections
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2020: The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice, (posthumous, with Kay Cosgrove). New York City, NY: W. W. Norton & Company
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2014: Twenty Poems That Could Save America and Other Essays, St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press,
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2006: Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft, St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press,
Honors and awards
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2008 Jackson Poetry Prize
[ Poets & Writers > Tony Hoagland Awarded Jackson Poetry Prize]
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2005 O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize
[ awarded by Folger Shakespeare Library
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2005 Mark Twain Award
[ awarded by The Poetry Foundation
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2002 Academy Award in Literature
[ from The American Academy of Arts and Letters
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2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry
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1997 James Laughlin Award Academy of American Poets for Donkey Gospel
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1994 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry
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1994 John C. Zacharis First Book Award
[ Ploughshares Authors & Articles > Tony Hoagland, Zacharis Award > by Don Lee ] from Ploughshares for Sweet Ruin
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1992 Brittingham Prize in Poetry
[ for Sweet Ruin awarded by University of Wisconsin–Madison
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1987 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry
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Controversy
On February 4, 2011, Claudia Rankine presented a reading
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