Angie Hogan

Angie Hogan’s poems have appeared in The Antioch Review, Bellingham Review, Ploughshares, Third Coast, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Willow Springs, and elsewhere. Originally from a small town in East Tennessee, she currently lives near Charlottesville and works at the University of Virginia Press.

12 years ago

Welcome to My Cabaret

I am that pillow in the couch-corner, red-faced and ready to lose its tassles. Those filmy letters from the newspaper still haunting your green-veined hands—that’s me. Twenty-four colors of countertop, three-inch squares strung together on a link chain. I am in your unconscious pretty little head. Buy a few drinks; put a buck or two […]

14 years ago

Screen Test

Give me a whiskey, ginger ale on the side. Fiddle-dee-dee. There’s no place like home. Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable? You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve? Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night. Say where are the Harlows of yesteryear? And don’t be stingy, […]

14 years ago

Playing the Field

You liked the way I wore short skirts bare-legged with Doc Martens or motorcycle boots. I liked the way your shoulders sprawled from under a teeny ribbed undershirt. “You should let me take you out,” you said. “You should let me take you in,” I should have said. Instead, I half-shrugged, half- smiled, crooked as […]

14 years ago

Playing with Fire

It took me this long to realize I was in love with the eighth grade witch. She whispered peppermint secrets like how to snap a person’s neck simply by severing a stolen thread of hair. You see I liked the way everything looked dangerous, the way she always wore black, tightening around her woman breasts. […]

14 years ago

Both Sides Against the Middle

The questions pile up, wadded tissue in a one-foot can. Shoeboxes, ash. Pick up sticks, house of cards. Who’s going to California? No one you know. Solo ant marching up the refrigerator disappears. Weevils in opened noodles. Chocolate meringue pie. Greg? do you like Greg? I wouldn’t tell you if I did. Wish upon a […]

14 years ago

Angie Hogan Q&A on form

Angie Hogan talks about determining the form a poem will take.

14 years ago

Angie Hogan Q&A on her poem “Screen Test”

Angie Hogan talks about the genesis of her poem “Screen Test.”

14 years ago