Tony Hoagland Joins Writing Faculty

We are very pleased to announce that this past year the Writing Program hired poet Tony Hoagland to fill the line left vacant by Ed Ochester's retirement. Tony Hoagland is the author of two books, Sweet Ruin, which received both the Brittingham Prize in Poetry from the University of Wisconsin and the Zacharis Award from Emerson College. His second book, Donkey Gospel, was awarded the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. He has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1999-2000 Tony was awarded, as well, the Jenny McKean Moore Fellowship from George Washington University and a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry. He will begin teaching in the English Department fall term, 2001.