Tony Hoagland  (b. 1953) LINKS The Blue Moon Review—Previews—Tony Hoagland http://www.thebluemoon.com/4/spr99prevhoagland.html The Blue Moon Review previews Tony Hoagland’s new collection of poetry Donkey Gospel by reproducing the book’s vibrantly colored dust jacket and Hoagland’s poems “Mistaken Identity” and “Self-Improvement.” Tony Hoagland’s “Hearings” http://www.wmich.edu/thirdcoast/hoagland_hearings.html Third Coast, a literary magazine published biannually by the English Department at Western Michigan University, reprints Hoagland’s poem “Hearings” on this site. Welcome to Ploughshares—The Literary Journal http://www.pshares.org/authors/authordetails.cfm?prmAuthorID=702 The literary journal Ploughshares offers Tony Hoagland’s poetry and nonfiction here. BIOGRAPHY Tony Hoagland was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina and educated at the University of Iowa and the University of Arizona. He has taught at many universities, including Kalamazoo College, Michigan, where he was writer-in-residence (summer 1991). Since 1993, he has been a faculty member in the writing program at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, North Carolina, and an instructor at Colby College in Maine. His poems and critical writings have appeared in such publications as Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology (1991). Hoagland’s first three collections of poems were chapbooks: A Change in Plans (1985), Talking to Stay Warm (1986), and History of Desire (1990). His first full-length volume of poetry, Sweet Ruin (1992), won the Brittingham Prize in poetry as well as the Zacharas Award from Emerson College. His most recent volume is Donkey Gospel (1998). T