was an accomplished writer and poet who in recent years ran the Bucks County Poet Laureate Program and the Bucks County's High School Poet of the Year contest.Hoey, a Solebury resident, was recognized as the county's poet master in 2001. The New York native also was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for "Country Music," a 2008 collection of poems, many of which concerned life in northern New York.
He recently released "Stricter Means," a selection of poems from previous collections. Hoey's other recent works include "Chasing the Dragon: A Novel about Jazz" and "Once Upon a Time at Blanche's" about the people he knew at a bar he frequented while an undergraduate college student in upstate New York in the 1970s.
from Bucks County Courier Times: Popular county poet dies of heart attack
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