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 2003, she became the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry in the Department of English at Arizona State University.

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.

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.

Hogue was presented with the 2013 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets for her co-translation with Sylvain Gallais of Virginie Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy's Fortino Sámano: (The Overflowing of the Poem).

In 2014 she held the Maxine and Jonathan Marshall Chair in Modern and Contemporary Poetry in the Department of English at Arizona State University.

Hogue was born on 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.

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, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in poetry, the H.D. Fellowship at the Beinecke Library at Yale University, an Arizona Commission on the Arts Project Grant, MacDowell and Wurlitzer residencies, and the Witter Bynner Translation Residency Fellowship at the Santa Fe Art Institute.

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.

Hogue has published essays on poetry, ranging from that of Emily Dickinson to Kathleen Fraser and Harryette Mullen.

Her critical work includes the co-edited editions We Who Love To Be Astonished: Experimental Feminist Poetics and Performance Art; Innovative Women Poets: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry and Interviews; and the first edition of H.D.’s The Sword Went Out to Sea (Synthesis of a Dream), by Delia Alton.