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First, I'd just like
to say thank you

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to the staff and docents
of the Poetry Center.

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It's my honor tonight
to introduce to you

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the incomparable Cynthia Hogue.

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She has published 14 books,
including nine collections

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of poetry, most recently
Revenance, listed

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as one of the standout books by
the Academy of American Poets.

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And In June The Labyrinth,
the one that Hannah just

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mentioned to you, which is
not yet out, but it's here.

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She co-authored
When The Water Came,

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which is an incredible
book that deals

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with the aftermath
of Hurricane Katrina.

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And Cynthia interviewed
many of the people who'd

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been displaced by that storm
and did interview poems

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and paired them with
photographs by Rebecca Ross.

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She has had poems in
just about every journal

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that you'd want to have
your poem, including,

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Field, and Prairie Schooner,
and Best American Poetry.

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She's been translating a
whole lot since about 2006.

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Along with her husband,
Sylvain Gallais,

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she's been translating
experimental French poets.

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And I think we'll hear some
of the translations tonight.

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Their book, Fortino Sámano,
The Overflowing of the Poem,

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is from the French of Virginie
Lalucq and Jean-Luc Nancy,

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and won the Harold Morton
Landon Translation Award from

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the Academy.

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Their co-translation of
Joan Darc is forthcoming.

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Cynthia is also an
amazing scholar.

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Her critical work focuses on
experimental and innovative

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women poets.

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Among her honors,
an NEA fellowship

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in poetry, the HD Fellowship
from Beinecke Library

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at Yale, a MacDowell Colony
residency, and a Witter Bynner

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Translation Fellowship.

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She's served as the
distinguishing visiting

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writer at Cornell, and she was a
2015 NEA Fellow in Translation.

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She holds the Maxine and
Jonathan Marshall Chair

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in Modern and
Contemporary Poetry

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at that other
university up in Tempe.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And two details
you may not know.

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She loves king crab legs.

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She will do anything.

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And she and her husband
will be soon moving

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to a much better place, Tucson.

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[APPLAUSE]