Poetry off the Shelf: Tony Hoagland

Tony Hoagland’s new collection of poems is Application for Release from the Dream (2015). His earlier books of poetry include Donkey Gospel (1998), winner of a James Laughlin Award; What Narcissism Means to Me (2003), a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award; and Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty (2010). Hoagland has received an O.B. Hardison Prize for Poetry and Teaching from the Folger Shakespeare Library, a Mark Twain Award from the Poetry Foundation, and a Jackson Poetry Prize from Poets & Writers. He teaches at the University of Houston and in the Warren Wilson MFA program. 

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