Hugh Ogden (March 11, 1937 – December 31, 2006) was an American poet and educator. Ogden was a 1959 graduate of Haverford College. Ogden received his master’s degree from New York University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He taught at Michigan and then for four decades at Trinity College in Hartford. While at Trinity, Ogden co-founded the College’s creative writing program in 1968.[1]
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Ogden was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. Ogden has written an estimated 400 to 500 poems, many of which have been published in small presses and magazines, and he has won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowships. In 1998, Ogden was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry.[2]
Ogden died on December 31, 2006, after falling through the ice on Rangeley Lake in Oquossoc, Maine.[3][4]
Select publications
edit- Looking for History (1991)
- Two Roads and This Spring (1993)
- Windfalls (1996)
- Natural Things (1998)
- and Gift (1998)
- Bringing a Fir Straight Down (2004)
- Turtle Island Tree Psalms (2006)
References
edit- ^ "About". Hugh Ogden. Retrieved 2021-10-18.
- ^ "A passionate teacher helps students find their voices in a noisy world". Trinity College. Archived from the original on 27 September 2012. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Poet Hugh Ogden Dies". Hartfordinfo. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Drowned Poet Was Inspired by the Wilds", Jane Gordon, The New York Times, January 7, 2007. Retrieved 2012-02-22.