User:Hugh Ogden

Hugh Ogden-Poet
Born: March, 1938 Died falling through the ice at his cabin in Rangeley Me: December 2006 He was a writer of over 500 hundred poems, many of which are published.

EDUCATION:

Haverford College, B.A., 1959 Harvard Summer School, Latin, 1959 New York University M.A., 1961 University of Michigan, Ph.D., 1967 Thesis: HYPERION AND THE CRITICS: A STUDY OF CRITICISM AND SCHOLARSHIP ON KEATS'S "HYPERION" AND "THE FALL OF HYPERION, A DREAM"

EMPLOYMENT: Professor of English, Trinity College, l992-present Associate Professor of English, Trinity College, 1975-1992 (Co-founded the Creative Writing Program with Stephen Minot, 1972-3 and Program Director, 1980-94) Assistant Professor of English, Trinity College, 1967-1975 Instructor, University of Michigan, l965-67, full time, taught Greek & Latin literature in the Honors Program for 5 of the years I was at the U of M. Teaching Fellow, University of Michigan, l961-65 Correspondent, AT&T, 1961 Library Clerk, New York Public Library, l960 Bookseller, Scribners Book Store, New York, l959

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:

Associated Writing Programs Poetry Society of America Poets and Writers Academy of American Poets

BOARD OF DIRECTORS:

CORPORATION OF HAVERFORD COLLEGE FRIENDS AND ENEMIES OF WALLACE STEVENS LAND HERITAGE COALITION OF GLASTONBURY

FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS & AWARDS:

Connecticut Commission On The Arts Grant, 2003. Faculty Research Grant, One Semester Paid Leave, Trinity College, 2000-01. Faculty Research Grant, One Semester Paid Leave, Trinity College, 1997-8. National Endowment for the Arts, Creative Writing Grant, l993. Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Grant for Poetry, 1990. Summer Grant for my book on Norman Morrison, Trinity College, l99O. Connecticut Commission On The Arts, Grant, 1974.

HONORS: "Circumference And Centers" read by Garrison Keillor on "The Writer's Almanac," March 29, 2006.

Nominated for the Kingsley-Tufts Prize for BRINGING A FIR STRAIGHT DOWN, August, 2005.

Nominated for Pushcart Prize in Poetry, November, 2004. "Her Christening" chosen as Honorable Mention by the Associated Church Press for excellence in poetry for its appearance in The CHRISTIAN CENTURY, 2002.

Scholar in Residence, Hall High School, West Hartford, Fall, 1999.

Interviewed by CT Public Television and talked about the poetry of Wallace Stevens, "CTJournal," April 9, 1999,

Nominated for Pushcart Prize in Poetry, January, 1999.

Litchfield Hills Writer's Retreat--(1)Reading of Blake's Poetry[with Ann McDonough (actress) and Caroline Kinsolving (child)] and (2)poetry workshop, June 10, 1995 Poetry reading and talk, Celebration of the gift of my literarypapers and letters to the Watkinson Library, April 6, 1995. Reading and Presentation of William Blake's Poetry [with Ann McDonough(actress) and Caroline Kinsolving (child)], New York Public Library, March 13, 1995.

Selected as a featured artist for the CT Commission on the Arts exhibition, "Investing in Dreams: Connecticut's Commitment to the Imagination," poems exhibited at The Discovery Museum (Bridgeport) and a dedicatory poetry reading, October 12, l995.

Poet-in-Residence, U of Portland (Oregon), October 25-29, l993.

Interviewed for NEW YORK TIMES(3/29/92); Associated Press (3/6/92). Featured in "On Common Ground," TV Documentary on CT Writers shown on CPTV about eight times and nationally, 1991-93. "From Red Hill, The River," poem etched in the Bricks of Pratt Street bySociety for Savings (the Pratt Street Renewal Project, Hartford), 1988.

Listed as one of most popular Teachers at Trinity, THE UNDERGROUND GUIDE TO THE COLLEGE OF YOUR CHOICE, 1974. Outstanding Educator of America, 1973.

BOOKS:

TURTLE ISLAND TREE PSALMS, Higganum Hill Books, 2006.

BRINGING A FIR STRAIGHT DOWN, Higganum Hill Books, 2005.

GIFT, CRS OutLoud Books, Claryville, NY, 1998. Reviews: Donna Reis, AMERICAN BOOK REVIEW, fall 1999, pp. ? James Ransom, HAVERFORD, summer, 1999, pp.18-9. NATURAL THINGS, Andrew Mountain Press, Newington, CT, 1998.

WINDFALLS, Andrew Mountain Press, Newington, CT, 1996.

TWO ROADS AND THIS SPRING, CRS OutLoud Books, Claryville, NY, 1993. Reviews: Tad Richards, "The Neural System of Sorrow," HUDSON VALLEY LITERARY SUPPLEMENT (WOODSTOCK TIMES), May 13, 1993, p. 5. Matt Fitzgerald, HAVERFORD (Spring, 1994), p. 34.

LOOKING FOR HISTORY, CRS OutLoud Books, Claryville, NY, l991. Reviews: SMALL PRESS BOOK REVIEW (May-June, 1992). LAKE EFFECT, VI #4(winter, 1992), pp 15-6. Robert Peters, "Creatures," SMALL PRESS REVIEW, XXIV, # 11(Nov, l992), p. 7. JOURNAL INQUIRER (November 8, l991), p. 29.

CD & TAPE:

HUGH OGDEN: POETRY READING, Axis CD, recorded by Carl Shillo, Andover, CT, 2003. HUGH OGDEN READING HIS POETRY, Hill-Stead Museum, Farmington, CT, l992.