Tony Hoagland
Poet
June 3, 2008

Community Reception:

2:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Winter Park Campus

Room 224-226

Tony Hoagland is the author of three volumes of poetry: Sweet Ruin , Donkey Gospel and What Narcissism Means to Me , as well as a collection of essays about poetry, Real Sofistakashun , all by Graywolf Press. Described as witty and ironic, his poems and critical essays have appeared widely in journals and anthologies such as American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, and Ploughshares. Hoagland currently teaches in the poetry program at the University of Houston. He is the winner of the 2005 O.B. Hardison Jr. Prize. Awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library, this is the only national prize to recognize a poet's teaching as well as his art. Hoagland also received the 2005 Mark Twain Award, given by the Poetry Foundation in recognition of a poet's contribution to humor in American poetry.

The appearance of Tony Hoagland is sponsored by Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach , Florida , as part of its Master Artists-in-Residence Outreach Program.