Thursday, October 21, 2010

Reading at Gallery 55 in Natick, 55 S. Main Street, Thursday, October 21st, 7:00 p.m.

Reading at Portsmouth Poet Laureate Program Poetry Hoot at Cafe Espresso, Islington St., Portsmouth NH, on Wednesday, Dec. 1st at 7:00 p.m.

Reading at Harvard Coop Wednesday December 8th at 7:00 p.m.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hi Mr. Hodgen!!

Its Gina Valentine..I happened to see a comment from a friend of mine from Assumption on Assumption Alumni's status asking what your favorite class was. She responded with a course of yours and I told her how you were my high school english teacher and I got to run into you a few times as Assumption as well. Just wanted to drop a note and say hi!:)

3 things i vividly remember from HS:
1 - you bought a Shrewsbury Gold Card from me haha
2 - for summer reading we had to read A Prayer for Owen Meany and the day of the test you asked the class how many people truly read the book and only half of us did so you gave us another week to read it before we took the test because you cared more about us actually reading and discussing it than the test itself :)
3 - you came to my cross country race at Tufts and i was doing so terrible and as i ran by you towards the end you said "do it for goofy" and that made me smile!

Hope all is well would love to hear from you if you want to write back my email is Gina248@yahoo.com (i know, who doesnt have gmail these days!?)

-Gina

About John

John Hodgen lives in Shrewsbury, MA. He is Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Assumption College, and also teaches at Mount Wachusett Community College and the Worcester Art Museum. He is the author of Heaven & Earth Holding Company, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010, Grace, (winner of the 2005 AWP Donald Hall Prize in Poetry, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), In My Father's House (winner of the 1993 Bluestem Award from Emporia State University in Kansas), and Bread Without Sorrow (2001, winner of the 2002 Balcones Poetry Prize, Lynx House Press /Eastern Washington Unversity Press, Spokane WA, ISBN# 0-89924-112-3.) He has won the Grolier Prize for Poetry, an Arvon Foundation Award, the Yankee Magazine Award for Poetry, first prize in the Red Brick Review poetry competition, a Massachusetts Cultural Council Finalist Award in Poetry in 2000. He won the Chad Walsh Poetry Prize for the best poems published in Beloit Poetry Journal in 2008. Several of his poems have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize, and he was one of five finalists in the Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship Program. He was a finalist in Houghton Mifflin's New Poetry Series, Cleveland State University's Poetry Center Prize, Carnegie Mellon University's Poetry Series, and Northeastern University's Samuel French Morse Poetry Award. John's work has been included in the anthologies Witness and Wait: Thirteen Poets From New England and Something Understood (Every Other Thursday Press, Cambridge, MA, 1989, 1996); We Teach Them All: Teachers Writing About Diversity (Stenhouse Publishers, York, Maine, 1996); and Bone Cages (Haley Press, Athol, MA, 1996).