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, 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.

Life
He 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 Warren Wilson College low-residency MFA program.

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."

Honors and awards

 * 2008 Jackson Poetry Prize Poets & Writers
 * 2005 O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize Folger Shakespeare Library
 * 2005 Mark Twain Award The Poetry Foundation
 * 2002 Academy Award in Literature The American Academy of Arts and Letters
 * 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry
 * 1997 James Laughlin Award Academy of American Poets for Donkey Gospel
 * 1994 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry
 * 1994 John C. Zacharis First Book Award from Ploughshares for Sweet Ruin
 * 1992 Brittingham Prize in Poetry for Sweet Ruin
 * 1987 NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry

Published works
Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
 * Full-Length Poetry Collections
 * 2010: Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty, St. Paul: Graywolf Press, ISBN 978-1555975494
 * 2003: What Narcissism Means to Me, St. Paul: Graywolf Press
 * 1998: Donkey Gospel, St. Paul: Graywolf Press
 * 1992: Sweet Ruin, Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press


 * Chapbooks
 * 2009: Little Oceans, Venice, California: Hollyridge Press
 * 2005: Hard Rain, Venice, California: Hollyridge Press
 * 1990: History of Desire, Tucson: Moon Pony Press
 * 1986: Talking to Stay Warm, Minneapolis: Coffee Cup Press
 * 1985: A Change in Plans, Sierra Vista, California: San Pedro Press


 * Essay Collections
 * 2006: Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft, St. Paul: Graywolf Press, 2006)

Anthologies
 * 1991: