T.R. Hummer

Terry Randolph Hummer (born August 7, 1950, Macon, Mississippi) is an American poet, critic, essayist, editor, and professor. His most recent poetry collection is Ephemeron (Louisiana State University Press, 2011). He has published poems in literary journals and magazines including The New Yorker, Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, and Georgia Review. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship inclusion in the 1995 edition of Best American Poetry, and two Pushcart Prizes.

Hummer was born and raised in Mississippi, and graduated from University of Southern Mississippi with a B. A. in 1972 and M. A. in 1974. He studied with Gordon Weaver and D.C. Berry. He graduated from the University of Utah with a PhD, where he studied with Dave Smith and was editor of Quarterly West in 1979.

He taught at Oklahoma State University, where he was poetry editor of The Cimarron Review. In 1984 he relocated to Kenyon College; there, after visiting positions at Middlebury College (where he guest edited New England Review) and the University of California at Irvine, he became editor of The Kenyon Review. In 1989 he returned to Middlebury as editor of New England Review. He relocated to the University of Oregon in 1993, where he directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing. In 1997, he taught at Virginia Commonwealth University. He taught at the University of Georgia, and was editor of The Georgia Review. He teaches currently at Arizona State University,.

Honors and awards

 * 1992 Guggenheim Fellowship

Poetry

 * Translation of Light (chapbook). Cedar Creek Press, 1976.
 * The Angelic Orders. Louisiana State University Press, 1982.
 * The Passion of the Right-Angled Man. University of Illinois Press, 1984.
 * Lower-Class Heresy. University of Illinois Press, 1987.
 * Walt Whitman in Hell: Poems. Louisiana State University Press, 1996.
 * Walt Whitman in Hell: Poems. Louisiana State University Press, 1996.

Essays

 * The Muse in the Machine: Essays on Poetry And the Anatomy of the Body Politic. University of Georgia Press, 2006.
 * The Muse in the Machine: Essays on Poetry And the Anatomy of the Body Politic. University of Georgia Press, 2006.