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Search - List of Books by 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 New York School and 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.
His work has been associated with the New York School poets and innovative practices such as New York School and 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.
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