Richard Hugo

Richard Hugo was born on December 21, 1923, in White Center, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. He is known as a Pacific Northwest poet and studied with both James Wright and Theodore Roethke, who taught his class at the University of Washington.

Selected Bibliography

• The Triggering Town: Lectures and Essays on Poetry and Writing
• Making Certain It Goes On: The Collected Poems of Richard Hugo
• The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography