Participation Type
Panel
Session Title
Session 2.10 Literature and Poetry
Presentation #1 Title
The Poetics of Richard Hague
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
Maurice Manning has called Richard Hague a ”naturalist who comes from a landscape that has suffered the systematic removal of Nature.” Hague’s poetry details that loss and seeks to mitigate it. His collections include Ripening (2004), Possible Debris (1988), Mill and Smoke Marrow (1991), Alive in Hard Country (2003), The Time It Takes Light(2004), and Public Hearings (2009). Hague’s awards include Co-Poet of the Year in Ohio 1985, 2003 Poetry Book of the Year from the Appalachian Writers Association, Sow’s Ear Poetry Prize, President’s Award in Poetry (Ohio Journal), and the Black Swamp Poetry Prize. His new and selected poems, During the Recent Extinctions (2012), won the Weatherford Award in Poetry from the ASA. Hague was recently featured at the Emory & Henry Literary Festival and (forthcoming) Iron Mountain Review. Marianne Worthington’s paper, “Necessary Lives.” will focus on the how Hague transforms body and soul into poetic maps in Alive in Hard Country, focusing on the use of image making meter and music to transform the hard places and people of Hague’s native Steubenville, Ohio into enduring literary representations. She will illustrate how Hague works as a kind of cartographer, combining storytelling and poetic exercise to map out his native place in the world along the Ohio River. Mike Henson’s “Beauty’s Millions…” will examine nature and poetic diction in Hague’s work over the last forty years. Chris Green’s “Common Wounds…” will examine hardship and struggle and contextualize Hague’s work in the larger picture of Appalachian Literature.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #1
Scott Goebel is actively involved with the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative and a founding member of the Bad Branch Institute.
Presentation #2 Title
“Necessary Lives”: How Richard Hague transforms body and soul into poetic maps in Alive in Hard Country. Marianne Worthington, University of the Cumberlands.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #2
Marianne Worthington is co-founder and poetry editor of Still: The Journal, an online literary magazine, and associate professor of communication and journalism at University of the Cumberlands, Williamsburg, Ky.
Presentation #3 Title
'Common Wounds’: 40 Years of Richard Hague’s Poetry. Chris Green, Berea College.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #3
Mike Henson is author the novels Ransack and Tommy Perdue as well the short story collection Small Room With Trouble on My Mind. His poetry collections include Crow Call and the Tao of Longing.
Presentation #4 Title
Beauty’s Million Species’: Nature and Poetic Diction in the Poetry of Richard Hague
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #4
Chris Green is Director of the Loyal Jones Appalachian Center; Associate Professor of Appalachian Studies; and Program Coordinator of Appalachian Studies at Berea College.
The Poetics of Richard Hague
Drinko Library 402
Maurice Manning has called Richard Hague a ”naturalist who comes from a landscape that has suffered the systematic removal of Nature.” Hague’s poetry details that loss and seeks to mitigate it. His collections include Ripening (2004), Possible Debris (1988), Mill and Smoke Marrow (1991), Alive in Hard Country (2003), The Time It Takes Light(2004), and Public Hearings (2009). Hague’s awards include Co-Poet of the Year in Ohio 1985, 2003 Poetry Book of the Year from the Appalachian Writers Association, Sow’s Ear Poetry Prize, President’s Award in Poetry (Ohio Journal), and the Black Swamp Poetry Prize. His new and selected poems, During the Recent Extinctions (2012), won the Weatherford Award in Poetry from the ASA. Hague was recently featured at the Emory & Henry Literary Festival and (forthcoming) Iron Mountain Review. Marianne Worthington’s paper, “Necessary Lives.” will focus on the how Hague transforms body and soul into poetic maps in Alive in Hard Country, focusing on the use of image making meter and music to transform the hard places and people of Hague’s native Steubenville, Ohio into enduring literary representations. She will illustrate how Hague works as a kind of cartographer, combining storytelling and poetic exercise to map out his native place in the world along the Ohio River. Mike Henson’s “Beauty’s Millions…” will examine nature and poetic diction in Hague’s work over the last forty years. Chris Green’s “Common Wounds…” will examine hardship and struggle and contextualize Hague’s work in the larger picture of Appalachian Literature.
