February 26, 2009...3:00 pm

Ambassador for American poetry

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Tony Hoagland chats with students after the assembly.

Tony Hoagland chats with students after the assembly.

Today’s assembly speaker was Tony Hoagland, author of three volumes of poetry: Sweet Ruin, winner of the Brittingham Prize in Poetry, Donkey Gospel, winner of the James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets, and What Narcissism Means to Me. He has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment on the Arts, and the Academy of Arts and Letters. Hear his reading here, with an introduction by English department chair Meg McClellan.

 

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