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Hugh Ogden (March 11, 1937 – December 31, 2006) was an American poet and educator. Ogden was a 1959 graduate of Haverford College. Ogden received his master’s degree from New York University and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan. He taught at Michigan and then for four decades at Trinity College in Hartford. While at Trinity, Ogden co-founded the College’s creative writing program in 1968.[1]

Ogden was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. Ogden has written an estimated 400 to 500 poems, many of which have been published in small presses and magazines, and he has won a National Endowment for the Arts grant and two Connecticut Commission on the Arts Fellowships. In 1998, Ogden was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in Poetry.[2]

Ogden died on December 31, 2006, after falling through the ice on Rangeley Lake in Oquossoc, Maine.[3][4]

Select publications

• Looking for History (1991)
• Two Roads and This Spring (1993)
• Windfalls (1996)
• Natural Things (1998)
• and Gift (1998)
• Bringing a Fir Straight Down (2004)
• Turtle Island Tree Psalms (2006)

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