Rhyme and reason: Hoagland on exerting ‘the focusing power of poetry’

 

Renowned poet Tony Hoagland returns to Maine next week, to the state he called home for more than a decade and one he returns to each summer.

“The place has become cool,” Hoagland said of Portland from his Texas home this week. He teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Houston. “Like Boulder or Phoenix or any place that becomes gentrified and then gets bohemian credentials, it becomes a magnet.”