Title: Professor of English
Office: 536 O'Dowd Hall
Phone: (248) 370-2252
E-mail: hoeppner@oakland.edu
Degrees
Ph.D. Modern Letters, 1984, The University of Iowa
Major Fields
Creative writing (poetry)
Modern and contemporary poetry and theory: John Ashbery; W.S. Merwin
Publications
Echoes and Moving Fields: Structure and Subjectivity in the Poetry of W.S. Merwin and
John Ashbery (Bucknell UP, 1994), criticism and theory
Rain through High Windows (New Issues, 2000), poetry
Ancestral Radio (Word Press, 2008), poetry
Blood Prism (Ohio State University Press, 2011); winner, The Journal/Charles Wheeler
Award; Finalist, The Kingsley Tufts Poetry Prize