Cynthia Hogue (August 26, 1951) is an American poet, translator, critic and professor. She specializes in the study of feminist poetics, and has written in the areas of ecopoetics and the poetics of witness. In 2014 she held the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry in the Department of English at

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Early life and education

Hogue was born on in the

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and raised in the

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. As an undergraduate, she studied the art of literary translation, taking classes at

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in which she worked from trots (translating classical

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in combination with the study of

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's translation work), as well as taking courses in German and French literature.

Academic career

Hogue has lived and taught in Iceland, Denmark, at the

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,"Wandering Spirit "
''Tucson Weekly''. in New York, and Pennsylvania, where she directed the Stadler Center for Poetry at

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for eight years. She has received a

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, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry, the H.D. Fellowship at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, an Arizona Commission on the Arts Project Grant, MacDowell and Wurlitzer residencies, and the Witter Bynner Translation Residency Fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute. In 2003, she became the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry in the Department of English at Arizona State University. She taught English and creative writing at ASU until she retired. She is now an ASU Emerita Professor of English. She lives in Tucson, Arizona and teaches workshops at the

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Writing career

Poetry

Hogue is known for her collection of poetry about

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, ''When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina'', which features interview-poems by Hogue and photographs by Rebecca Ross. Cynthia Hogue has published nine collections of poetry as of 2017, most recently, ''In June the Labyrinth''. Hogue also published ''The Incognito Body'' which focuses on her disability, rheumatoid arthritis.

Literary criticism

Hogue has published essays on poetry, ranging from that of Emily Dickinson to Kathleen Fraser and Harryette Mullen. Her critical work includes the co-edited editions ''We Who Love To Be Astonished: Experimental Feminist Poetics and Performance Art''; ''Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews''; and the first edition of ''H.D.’s The Sword Went Out to Sea (Synthesis of a Dream), by Delia Alton''.

Awards

Hogue was presented with the 2013

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from the Academy of American Poets for her co-translation with Sylvain Gallais of Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy's ''Fortino Sámano:'' ''(The Overflowing of the Poem).''

Published work

*''Lointaines'' by Nicole Brossard, co-translated with Sylvain Gallais, Omnidawn, 2022 *''Contain'', Tram Editions, 2022 *''In June the Labyrinth'', Red Hen Press, 2017 *''Revenance'', Red Hen Press, 2014 *''Or Consequence'', Red Hen Press, 2010 *''When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina'' with photographer Rebecca Ross, University of New Orleans Press, 2010 *''Under Erasure as in: Sign (Silence) '' e-chapbook, published in The Drunken Boat 7:3-4 (Fall/Winter 2007) *''The Incognito Body,'' Red Hen Press, 2006 *''Flux,'' New Issues Press 2002 *''The Never Wife,'' Mammoth Press, 1999 *''The Woman in Red,'' Ahsahta Press, 1990 *''Where the Parallels Cross,'' Whiteknights Press, 1984 *''Touchwood,'' Porchwood Press, 1979 *''Fortino Sámano (The Overflowing of the Poem)'' by Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy, co-translated with Sylvain Gallais, Omnidawn, 2012 *''The Sword Went Out to Sea (Synthesis of a Dream) by Delia Alton,'' co-edited with Julie Vandivere, University Press of Florida, 2007 *''Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews,'' co-edited with Elisabeth Frost, University of Iowa Press, 2007"From the Hither Side: Innovative Women Poets"
an interview by Jane Joritz-Nakagawa ''Jacket Magazine'' *''We Who Love To Be Astonished: Experimental Feminist Poetics and Performance Art,'' co-edited with Laura Hinton, University of Alabama Press, 2001 *''Scheming Women: Poetry, Privilege, and the Politics of Subjectivity'' State, University of New York Press, 1995

References

External links

Profile at ''Blackbird''
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