T. R. Hummer

Terry Randolph Hummer (born August 7, 1950, Macon, Mississippi) is an American poet.

Life

He graduated from University of Southern Mississippi with a B. A. in 1972 and M. A. in 1974. He studied with Gordon Weaver and D.C. Berry. He graduated from the University of Utah with a PhD, where he studied with Dave Smith and was editor of Quarterly West in 1979.

He taught at Oklahoma State University, where he was poetry editor of The Cimarron Review. In 1984 he relocated to Kenyon College; there, after visiting positions at Middlebury College (where he guest edited New England Review) and the University of California at Irvine, he became editor of The Kenyon Review. In 1989 he returned to Middlebury as editor of New England Review.

He relocated to the University of Oregon in 1993, where he directed the MFA Program in Creative Writing.

In 1997, he taught at Virginia Commonwealth University. He taught at the University of Georgia, and was editor of The Georgia Review.

He teaches at Arizona State University, where he is living still, with his wife Stephanie, his daughter Jackson.

Awards

• Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

Poetry

• "System"; "Fallacy of Composition"; "Bald Man Fallacy"; "The Illegibility of Providence"; "Infinite by Virtue of Its Everlastingness"; "Bounded by its Own Completeness", Mudlark, No. 81 (2009)
• "Greek", Poetry Foundation

• Translation of Light (1976) (chapbook)
• The Angelic Orders (LSU Press 1982)
• The Passion of the Right-Angled Man (U. of Illinois Press 1984)
• Lower-Class Heresy University of Illinois 1987
• The Eighteen-Thousand-Ton Olympic Dream. Morrow. 1990. ISBN 9780688090180.
• Walt Whitman in Hell (LSU Press 1996)
• Useless Virtues. Louisiana State University Press. 2001. ISBN 9780807126691.
• Bluegrass Wasteland: Selected Poems 1978-2003. Arc Publications. 2005. ISBN 9781900072823.
• The Infinity Sessions: Poems. Southern Messenger Poets. 2005. ISBN 9780807130667.

Anthologies

• The Best American Poetry 1995. Simon and Schuster. 1995. ISBN 9780684801513. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
• Leon Stokesbury, ed. (1999). "Inner Ear". The made thing: an anthology of contemporary Southern poetry. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 9781557285799.
• Jay Parini, ed. (2005). "Courtly Love". The Wadsworth anthology of poetry. Cengage Learning. ISBN 9781413004731.
• Bill Henderson, ed. (2003). Pushcart prize XXVII: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 9781888889352.
• Bill Henderson, ed. (1993). The Pushcart Prize XVIII: Best of the Small Presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 9780916366896.

Editor

• Kenyon Review (1988) (Editor)
• The Unfeigned-Word: Fifteen Years of New England Review (1993) with Jersild

Essays

• "The Mechanical Muse". Da Capo best music writing 2004: the year's finest writing on rock, hip-hop, jazz, pop, country, and more. Da Capo Press. 2004. ISBN 9780306813801. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |editors= ignored (|editor= suggested) (help)
• The Muse in the Machine: Essays on Poetry And the Anatomy of the Body Politic (The Life of Poetry: Poets on Their Art and Craft) April 2006

External links

• "Author's website"
• "Author's blog"
• "Interview", Blackbird, February 16, 2004
• "T.R. Hummer poems", Little Epic Against Oblivion, Joshua Robbins, October 7, 2008
• "Chapter & Verse", The Franklin Chronicle, Mary Jessica Hammes, Fall 2005