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Sarasota News Leader November 30, 2012 Page 85 and the short story collection The Taste of Penny. His work has appeared in American Short Fiction, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Ploughshares, The Walrus, Tin House and others. His nonfiction book Igor in Crisis will be published in 2013. Parker, who grew up in Tallahassee, earned a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from the University of Florida. He then attended the prestigious creative writing program at Syracuse University, where he graduated with an M.F.A. in creative writing in 1999. Jeff Parker/Contributed photo Hoagland is the winner of the 2005 O.B. Hardison Jr. Prize, which is awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library; it is the only national prize to recognize a poet's teaching as well as his art, the news release points out. He serves as a faculty member at the University of Toronto and also runs the Low Res Writ- Garcia Lopes comes to the Hermitage through ing Program at the University of Tampa. its partnership with the University of Iowa International Writing Program. An accomplished Hoagland is the author of three volumes of poet, songwriter, journalist, fiction writer and poetry: Sweet Ruin, winner of the Brittingtranslator from Brazil, he has published five ham Prize in Poetry; Donkey Gospel, winner collections of poetry, including Solarium of the James Laughlin Award of The Acade(1994), Polivox (2001) and Nômada (2004). my of American Poets; and What Narcissism His poems, essays and interviews have been Means to Me, as well as a collection of essays widely published and included in anthologies about poetry, Real Sofistikashun. such as Os Cem Melhores Poemas Brasileiros His poems and critical essays have appeared do Século 20 (The Best 100 Brazilian Poems widely in journals and anthologies such as of the Twentieth Century), the news release American Poetry Review, Poetry Magazine, adds. and Ploughshares, the news release notes. His second CD, Canções do Estúdio Realidade (Songs from Reality Studio), a new book of poems and his first novel, the detective story O Trovador (The Troubadour) are set to be released in 2013. He translates from English and from French. A freelance journalist and translator, he co-edits the arts magazine Coyote and performs his poems and songs regularly around Brazil. Rodrigo Garcia Lopes/Contributed photo For more information about the beach reading or The Hermitage Artist Retreat, call 475-2098 or visit the website. %