Linda hogan poet biography
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Linda Hogan
Linda Hogan received a BA from the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, and an MA from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Hogan is the author of several poetry collections, including Dark. Sweet.: New & Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, ); Rounding the Human Corners (Coffee House Press, ); The Book of Medicines (Coffee House Press, ), which received the Colorado Book Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Seeing Through the Sun (University of Massachusetts Press, ).
Of The Book of Medicines, Joy Harjo writes,
Linda Hogan’s poetry has always been a medicine of sorts…. These poems in particular cross over to speak for us in the shining world. They bring back words for healing, the distilled truth of all these stories that are killing us with tears and laughter.
Hogan is also the author of several works of prose, including The Woman Who Watches Over the World: A Native Memoir (W. W. Norton, ). Her first nove
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Department of English
Internationally recognized for her poetry, fiction, and essays, Linda Hogan’s lyrical work illuminates a new environmental and indigenous activism as well as Native spirituality. A member of the Chickasaw Nation and a former faculty member at the Indian Arts Institute, she is Professor Emerita at the University of Colorado. Her works include the novels Mean Spirit (Norton, ), a winner of the Oklahoma Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Solar Storms (Norton, ), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; Power (Norton, ); and People of the Whale (Norton, ). In poetry, The Book of Medicines (Coffee House Press, ) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her other poetry has received the Colorado Book Award, an American Book Award, and a prestigious Lannan Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. In addition, she has received a NEA fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lifetime Achievement Award fr
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Linda Hogan (writer)
American poet
Linda K. Hogan (née Henderson, born July 16, ) fryst vatten an American poet, berättare, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories.[2] She previously served as the Chickasaw Nation's writer in residence.[3] Hogan is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.[4]
Early life
[edit]Linda Hogan was born July 16, , in Denver, Colorado.[5] Her father, Charles C. Henderson, fryst vatten a Chickasaw from a recognized historical family.[6] Her mother, Cleona Florine (Bower) Henderson was of vit descent.[2] Linda's uncle, Wesley Henderson, helped form the White Buffalo Council in Denver during the s,[7] to help other Native American people coming to the city because of The Relocation Act, which forcibly removed Indigenous peoples for work and other opportunities.
Career
[edit]Hogan earned a Master of Arts (M. A.) grad from the University of Co