Paul Hoover (poet)

His work has been associated with innovative practices such as; New York School and language poetry.

After many years as poet in residence at Columbia College Chicago, he accepted the position of Professor of Creative Writing at San Francisco State University in 2003.

He is widely known as editor, with Maxine Chernoff, of the literary magazine New American Writing, published once a year in association with San Francisco State University.

He served as curator of a poetry series at the DeYoung Museum of Art in San Francisco from 2007 to 2011.

The series' first season Michael Palmer, Anne Carson, and Robert Hass; its final season featured the conceptual poets Kenneth Goldsmith and Vanessa Place and the Mexican poets Maria Baranda and Coral Bracho, winners of the distinguished Aguascalientes Prize.