Everett HoaglandEverett Hoagland was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but has lived in New Bedford since 1973 where he was that city's first Poet Laureate, 1994-1998. He was a full-time educator for four decades and is Professor Emeritus at the nearby niversity of Massachusetts Dartmouth in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts where during his 30-year career there he created and sustained four different African American literature classes in addition to his poetry writing workshops.His poetry has been published in periodicals such as THE AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW, THE MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW, THE IOWA REVIEW, THE CRISIS, THE PROGRESSIVE, THE UUA WORLD, The CAPE COD REVIEW and has been excerpted in The Boston Globe and Providence Journal. Hoagland's work has also appeared in many anthologies since 1968, including The Jazz Poetry Anthology, Bum Rush The Page, The Best American Poetry, African American Literature (eds. Gilyard and Wardi), The Oxford Anthology of African American Poetry, Afro Asia, Resisting Arrest, S.O.S., Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology, Liberation Poetry, What Saves Us and Black Fire -This Time. He received the Gwendolyn Brooks Award, two state-wide poetry competition awards for Massachusetts Artist Foundation Grants, two local Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Grants for book publications, The Langston Hughes Society Award, The Boston NAACP and Suffolk University Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation Initiative Award For A Lifetime Commitment To Black Liberation Through Art And Education, and The Stephen Henderson Award from The African American Literature And Culture Society. Most recently, he received the 2023 Stephen Henderson Award "For Outstanding Achievement In Poetry" from the American Literature Association's African American Literature and Culture Society. He is the recipient of the 2023 American Book Award.Hoagland's most recent books of poetry include Ocean Voices (third printing 2018), and his meditative collection The Ways: Poems of Affirmation, Remembrance, Reflection and Wonder (2022). He has given readings all over the USA, in Ghana, in Cuba and China. Much of his life's work and some memorabilia are archived in the W.E.B. Du Bois Library at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Read More Read Less