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 is also known for editing the anthology Postmodern American Poetry, 1994. A second edition
of the anthology was published in 2013.
Hoover was a founding board member and former president of the independent poetry reading series, "The Poetry Center at School of the Art Institute of Chicago," which celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2004.
The Frederick Bock Award for poems that appeared in the June 2010 issue of Poetry;
The PEN-USA Translation Award (with Maxine Chernoff) for Selected Poems of Friedrich Holderlin;
The Jerome J. Shestack Award for the best poems to appear in American Poetry Review in 2002;
The Carl Sandburg Award, Chicago's leading literary prize, for Idea, 1987;
The General Electric Foundation Award for Younger Writers, 1984, for poems later included in Nervous Songs;
and an NEA Fellowship in poetry, 1980.
Work
Hoover has published fifteen poetry collections, a book of literary essays, and a novel. He has also co-translated three volumes of poetry from German and Vietnamese.
Poetry
O and Green, New and Selected Poems Cheshire, MA: MadHat Press, 2021
En el idioma y en la tierra (In Idiom and Earth), translated into Spanish by Maria Baranda, Mexico City: Conaculta, 2012
La intencion y su materia (Intention and Its Thing), translated into Spanish by Maria Baranda, Caracas: Monte Avila Editores, 2012
