Everett Hoagland

Everett Hoagland

Everett Hoagland is emeritus professor of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and was the first poet laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts (1994–1998). He is a member of First Unitarian Church in New Bedford.

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By Everett Hoagland

  • As I ebb toward the end of life
    Everett Hoagland
    From Spirit
    Hear / the ocean’s roar and backdrop din / in the death-hollowed shells.
  • Attitude adjustment
    Everett Hoagland
    From Spirit
    Multiculturalism? Well and good. But don’t stop there!
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    Imagine
    Everett Hoagland
    From Spirit

    imagine your /body out- /living your /mind.

  • By ‘Amazing Grace’
    Everett Hoagland
    From Spirit

    lately I find / more of myself in other poets’ poems than in a mirror

  • page from Spring 2021: Poem by Everett Hoagland. Text in body of article.
    Incongruous
    Everett Hoagland

    “the word- / less blues cry of Hope”

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    ‘Illegal’ immigrants & legal inhumanity
    Everett Hoagland
    From Spirit

    who are we the people to keep people / from cropping the ‘amber waves of grain’

  • Homecoming
    Everett Hoagland
    From Spirit

    A sequence of poems about Africa.

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