Cynthia Hogue

Cynthia Hogue (August 26, 1951) is an American poet, translator, critic and professor. She specializes in the study of feminist poetics, and has written in the areas of ecopoetics and the poetics of witness. In 2014 she held the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry in the Department of English at Arizona State University.

Early life and education

Hogue was born in the Midwestern United States and raised in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. As an undergraduate, she studied the art of literary translation, taking classes at Oberlin College in which she worked from trots (translating classical Japanese poetry in combination with the study of Ezra Pound's translation work), as well as taking courses in German and French literature.

Academic career

Hogue has lived and taught in Iceland, Denmark, at the University of New Orleans, in New York, and Pennsylvania, where she directed the Stadler Center for Poetry at Bucknell University for eight years. She has received a Fulbright Fellowship, She taught English and creative writing at ASU until she retired. She is now an ASU Emerita Professor of English. She lives in Tucson, Arizona and teaches workshops at the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

Writing career

Poetry Hogue is known for her collection of poetry about Hurricane Katrina, When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina, which features interview-poems by Hogue and photographs by Rebecca Ross. Cynthia Hogue has published nine collections of poetry as of 2017, most recently, In June the Labyrinth. Hogue also published The Incognito Body which focuses on her disability, rheumatoid arthritis.

Literary criticism Hogue has published essays on poetry, ranging from that of Emily Dickinson to Kathleen Fraser and Harryette Mullen. Contain, Tram Editions, 2022 In June the Labyrinth, Red Hen Press, 2017 Revenance, Red Hen Press, 2014 Or Consequence, Red Hen Press, 2010 When the Water Came: Evacuees of Hurricane Katrina with photographer Rebecca Ross, University of New Orleans Press, 2010 We Who Love To Be Astonished: Experimental Feminist Poetics and Performance Art, co-edited with Laura Hinton, University of Alabama Press, 2001 Scheming Women: Poetry, Privilege, and the Politics of Subjectivity State, University of New York Press, 1995