Hiram Poetry Review: The Art of Angling

Christina Tilicki reviews The Art of Angling: Poems about Fishing for Hiram Poetry Review.

“Collecting poetry from around the world, Hughes has assembled an anthology that not only portrays the differences of various fishing cultures, but of particular eras, whether it be ancient China or present day America.”

Hiram Poetry Review’s full review of The Art of Angling: Poems about Fishing

Robert Pinsky comments on Moist Meridian

“Frank O’Hara’s call for poetry “better than the movies” suggests qualities of movement, vividness, clarity and music: a high standard, met by the poems of Moist Meridian. It won’t do to exaggerate the cinematic quality of the poems, with their flashes of narrative, rapid cuts, crisp dialogue, fresh characters; the kind of thinking and the language are those of a poet— and  distinctively reflective poet. The compression and swift varying of mood are those of poetry, as in the opening sentence-fragment of “Black Walnuts,”: little charred brains/ on November streets, where folks from Hope House/ lurch and bump, run rain-suited/ down to Rick’s Coffee and the market,/ over-greeting the kind and idle.” Alertness, generosity, irony and candor govern these poems, which are endlessly curious about the relations among people, with sex, friendship, marriage and alienation examples of an abiding, fearful but engaging mystery. An engaging, uneasy and clear-sighted book.”

Henry Hughes reads at the Ledding Library’s Milwaukie Poetry Series

Henry Hughes reads at the Ledding Library’s Milwaukie Poetry Series. February 9, 2011.

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Big catch was poetry in motion

English professor grabs 20-pounder at Wallowa Lake
Read the article from the Statesman Journal

Television interview with Jody Seay on Back Page

 Jody Seay with poet Henry Hughes, whose collection of poems, Moist Meridian, was a 2011 Oregon Book Award Finalist. Hughes won the Stafford Hall Award for Poetry in 2004 for his collection, Men Holding Eggs.

Henry Hughes on Back Page with Jody Seay

Big Fish at Fishtrap

Henry Hughes pulls 20-pound lake trout from Wallowa Lake at Summer Fishtrap

Cloudbank Books review: Moist Meridian

Donald Wolff reviews Moist Meridian for Cloudbank Books:

“To each endeavor he brings a sharp acuity and sustaining belief in poetic imagination.”

Cloudbank Books full review of Moist Meridian

 

 

2011 Oregon Book Award Finalist

Robert Pinsky has chosen Moist Meridian as finalist for the 2011 Oregon Book Award in Poetry. Join Literary Arts on Monday, April 25, 2011, when the winners are announced live at the Gerding Theatre.

Dave Jarecki interviews Henry Hughes

Dave Jarecki interviews Henry Hughes. Read the interview here.

FEELING MOIST: A review of Henry Hughes’ MOIST MERIDIAN

Dave Jarecki reviews Moist Meridian.