Discipline: Literature – poetry

Hugh Ogden

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Glastonbury, CT
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995, 2003
More: www.hughogdenpoet.com
Hugh Ogden (1937-2007) was an American poet and educator. Ogden was a 1959 graduate of Haverford College. He 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. 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.

Studios

Sorosis

Hugh Ogden worked in the Sorosis studio.

Sorosis Studio was funded by the New York Carol Club of Sorosis. The small, masonry studio was designed by F. Winsor, Jr., the architect who also designed Savidge Library (1926) and Mixter Studio (1927). At the time of construction, the large porch on the southeast façade offered a spectacular mountain view that has since been obscured…

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