Sandra & Gary Sojka Visiting Poet Series
The Sandra and Gary Sojka Visiting Poet Series was established in 1995 through the generosity of Gary Sojka, who served as president of Bucknell University from 1985-1995, and his wife Sandra. The Sojka Visiting Poet Series brings a distinguished poet to Bucknell for a two-day visit each fall. In addition to presenting a reading, the Sojka poet meets in an informal venue with students and other members of the Bucknell community.
Poets are chosen by invitation only; the Stadler Center for Poetry does not accept applications for this position.
Tony Hoagland
Sandra & Gary Sojka Visiting Poet, 2011–12
Tony Hoagland is the author of four books of poetry, several chapbooks, and one book of essays, Real Sofistakashun. His most recent full-length collections are Unincorporated Persons in the Late Honda Dynasty and What Narcissism Means to Me, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His recognitions include the Jackson Poetry Prize, the O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize from the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the Mark Twain Award for humor in American poetry. He teaches at the University of Houston and Warren Wilson College's low residency MFA program.
Events for Tony Hoagland
Question & Answer Session
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
4 p.m., Willard Smith Library, Vaughan Literature BuildingPoetry Reading
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
7 p.m., Bucknell HallBoth events are free and open to the public.
Former Sojka Visiting Poets
1995-96 Ellen Bryant Voigt
1996-97 Donald Justice
1997-98 Lorna Goodison
1998-99 John Haines
1999-00 Eavan Boland
2000-01 Robert Pinsky
2001-02 Paul Muldoon
2002-03 Maxine Kumin
2003-04 Stephen Dunn
2004-05 Elizabeth Alexander
2005-06 Philip Appleman
2006-07 Cornelius Eady
2007-08 Robin Becker
2008-09 Adam Zagajewski
2009-10 Baron Wormser
2010-11 Carl Phillips
