Everett Hoagland
“We shall see; we shall see, hear, feel, understand
and act on the haunting, freeing facts.”
A distinguished poet and writer, Everett Hoagland is professor emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, where he taught African American literature and poetry workshops for thirty years. Educated at Lincoln University and Brown University, Hoagland was Poet Laureate of New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1994-1998. Beginning his writing in the midst of the Black Arts Movement and Civil Rights era, Everett Hoagland’s many works include: Black Velvet (1970), Scrimshaw (1976), This City and Other Poems (1999), Here: New & Selected Poems (2002), and more recently Homecoming (2014). Hoagland’s poems have appeared in revered literary journals, such as The American Poetry Review and Callaloo, and have also been frequently anthologized. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Gwendolyn Brooks Award for Fiction, ForeWord Magazine’s Best Poetry Book award, and the Langston Hughes Society Award.
Featured Poems
/ Everett Hoagland reads “love Child—a black aesthetic”
love Child—a
Sweet baked apple
Mine
Nutmeg freckled
WOW
With your piping hot and
The brown sugar growing cane candy coming cocoa going
Crazy ‘bout brown sugar teases GOOD GOD and pleases
SWEET
JESUS that honey stained soul trained slow molasses ass
And HOT DAMN candied yam and sweet potato pie
Thighs and sweet raisin tipped
Stone brown sugar bowl belly to the bone to the bone
Dance
Too well together in the horizontal harvest dance dance
Of the slurp slap sea
The seeds’ ceremony through the tangled jungle vines we
Love in
Of our now we love earth humming bird humming under
The back and black
We love screaming and curdled creaming cradled in
Crisis
Of
The
Remembered good love and
POP! A black
Sugar
A
Bye rock a bye sweet blackberry pie and honey love
Syrup
Soul soft fur brown round little cup of rum nectarous
Nascency
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