Tony Hoagland’s books include What Narcissism Means to Me and Donkey Gospel. He teaches at the University of Houston and in the Warren Wilson Program.
Poetry
Spring 2014
River
Your courage and energy come back unexpectedly in Minneapolis while walking by the river; where the gray industrial-strength water lunges over the lip of the abandoned hydro plant into the […]
Poetry
Spring 2014
K Street in Springtime
On the stone steps of the law school, the third-year law students loiter after their arbitration class, discussing tort reform and amortization, letting the April sun kiss their habeas corpus, […]
Nonfiction
Spring 2014
Idiom, Our Funny Valentine: Its Cunning, Its Romance, Its Power
I am driving around Houston, listening to a sermon by one of our many local radio evangelists. Call him Pastor James. Brother James is telling an anecdote about himself. The […]
Poetry
Summer 2014
Snow
From the Welsh* No world but white. Even words of a girl won’t shift me from the peat fire. Here’s what I say to her: that I would arrive […]
Poetry
Summer 2014
The Turn in the Road
Past forty, a man can carry the flush of a tree in leaf and shoulder a quiver of speech. He can laugh quietly over his scars as he strides the […]
Poetry
Summer 2014
The Mansion of the Woods
From the Welsh* I heard their larking only yesterday the loquacious boys of the green trees. To me they are laureates, aflutter with god. a high riot in the […]
Tony Hoagland
Tony Hoagland’s books include What Narcissism Means to Me and Donkey Gospel. He teaches at the University of Houston and in the Warren Wilson Program. An excerpt from his essay […]