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For loan copies of Selected Poems, the documentary Kicking the Loose Gravel Home, and/or the CD Eat Stone and Go On—The Recorded Poetry of Richard Hugo, e-mail or call Kim Anderson, 800-624-6001 (in Montana). Humanities Montana also can provide discussion leaders for your class or group and additional programming ideas. 
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Richard Hugo’s Selected Poems has been chosen as the 2010 One Book Montana selection. The book features poems from Hugo’s first six poetry collections, including The Lady in Kicking Horse Reservoir and What Thou Lovest Well Remains American. Hugo taught at the University of Montana for almost eighteen years, edited the Yale Younger Poets series, and received the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. “The poetry of Richard Hugo is one of the most profound and moving human documents that our period of American literature has produced,” James Dickey said.
The One Book Montana program invites all Montanans to read and discuss Richard Hugo’s poetry throughout the summer and fall. Humanities Montana also will be hosting a moderated discussion on the Humanities Roundtable later this summer, and a number of events devoted to Hugo’s work at the 2010 Montana Festival of the Book, October 29-30. Thanks to the support of the book’s publisher, W.W. Norton, a limited number of copies will be available from Humanities Montana for short-term loans to book groups. This is the eighth year Humanities Montana has offered the statewide One Book program. Humanities Montana is indebted to its Montana Center for the Book Advisory Committee for assistance in choosing this year’s selection. Advisory committee members include William Bickle III, Mandy Smoker Broadus, John Clayton, Bill Cochran, Jennifer Harrison, Rick Newby, Barbara Theroux, and Niki Whearty. Humanities Montana and its Montana Center for the Book promote Montana literature, libraries and literacy and sponsor the Montana Festival of the Book, the Letters About Literature writing competition for young people and OpenBook reading and discussion programs. The Montana Center for the Book is a program of Humanities Montana, Montana’s independent nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
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Richard Hugo was born on December 21, 1923 in White Center,
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where he served as a bombardier, flying thirty-five combat missions
in the Mediterranean. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Creative
Writing from the University of Washington and was employed as a
technical writer for Boeing for thirteen years before publishing
his first poetry collection, A Run of Jacks.