Paul Hoover

Paul Hoover (born 1946) is an American poet and editor born in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

His work has been associated with the New York School poets and innovative practices such as language poetry.

After many years as poet in residence at Columbia College Chicago, he accepted the position of Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University in 2003. He lives in Mill Valley, California, with his wife, the poet and fiction writer Maxine Chernoff.

He is widely known as editor, with Chernoff, of the literary magazine New American Writing, published once a year in association with San Francisco State University. He is also known for editing the anthology Postmodern American Poetry.

Hoover wrote the script for the 1994 independent film "Viridian", directed by Joseph Ramirez, which was screened at The Film Center of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Hamburg Film Festival.

He serves as curator of a new poetry series at the DeYoung Museum of Art in San Francisco. The series' first season, in the spring of 2007, featured Michael Palmer, Anne Carson, and Robert Hass.

Hoover was a founding board member and former president of the independent poetry reading series, "The Poetry Center at School of the Art Institute of Chicago," which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2004.

His poetry has appeared in the literary magazines "American Poetry Review", "Triquarterly", "Conjunctions", "The Paris Review", "Partisan Review", "Sulfur", "The New Republic", "Hambone", and "The Iowa Review", among others. It has also appeared in numerous anthologies including five volumes of the annual anthology The Best American Poetry series.

Awards and honors

In 2002, Hoover won the Jerome J. Shestack Award for the best poems to appear in "American Poetry Review" that year. He won the Carl Sandburg Award, Chicago's leading literary prize, for his 1987 collection, "Idea" and the l984 General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers for poems later included in "Nervous Songs". In 1980, he was awarded an NEA Fellowship in poetry.

Work

Hoover has published eleven poetry collections, a book of literary essays, and a novel. He has also co-translated three volumes of poetry that are forthcoming in 2008.

Poetry

* "Edge and Fold", Berkeley: Apogee Press, 2006
* "Poems in Spanish", Richmond, CA: Omnidawn Publishing, 2005, nominated for the Bay Area Book Award;
* "Winter Mirror", Chicago: Flood Editions, 2002
* "Rehearsal in Black", Cambridge, England: Salt Publications, 2001
* "Totem and Shadow: New & Selected Poems", Jersey City: Talisman House, 1999
* "Viridian", Athens, GA: The University of Georgia Press, 1997, winner of the Contemporary Poetry Series competition
* "The Novel: A Poem", New York: New Directions, 1991
* "Idea", Great Barrington, MA
* "The Figures", 1987
* "Nervous Songs", Seattle: L'Epervier Press, 1986
* "Somebody Talks a Lot", Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1983
* "Letter to Einstein Beginning Dear Albert", Chicago: The Yellow Press, 1979

Other

* "Fables of Representation" (Essays), Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004
* Postmodern American Poetry (anthology), New York: W. W. Norton, 1994
* "Saigon, Illinois" (novel), New York: Vintage Contemporaries, 1988, a chapter of which appeared in "The New Yorker"

Forthcoming translations

* "Selected Poetry of Friedrich Hölderlin", bilingual edition edited and translated with Maxine Chernoff (Omnidawn Publishing, 2008)
* "Black Dog, Black Night: Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry," an anthology, edited and translated with Nguyen Do (Milkweed Editions, 2008)
* "Thirty-Three Poems of Nguyen Trai", bilingual edition edited and with photographs by Nguyen Duy, translated with Nguyen Do (Saigon Culture Publisher)

External links

* [http://www.newamericanwriting.com "New American Writing": Web site]
* [http://www.paulhooverpoetry.blogspot.com "Paul Hoover Poetry Blog": Web site]