John Poch

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Occupation Author Name John Poch		Role Poet

Books Dolls, Poems, Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection

2010 texas tech integrated scholar john poch

John Poch (born 1966 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is an American poet, fiction writer, and critic.

John Poch holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Texas. He was the inaugural Colgate University Creative Writing Fellow, and since 2001 has taught in the creative writing program at Texas Tech University. He serves as series editor for the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize at the University of North Texas Press, and for ten years edited 32 Poems with poet Deborah Ager.

Fulbright Core Scholar Fellowship (University of Barcelona, 2014)

New Criterion Poetry Prize

Donald Justice Poetry Prize

Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize

Colgate Creative Writing Fellowship

The Nation/Discovery Prize

Longsuffering.

Fix Quiet. St. Augustine's Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1587312694.

Dolls. Orchises Press. 2009. ISBN 9781932535204.

Two Men Fighting with a Knife. Story Line Press. 2008. ISBN 9780978599799.

Ghost Towns of the Enchanted Circle. Flying Horse Editions. 2007.

Chad Davidson and John Poch. Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection. St. Martin's Press. 2006. ISBN 9780312356071.

Poems. Orchises Press. 2004. ISBN 9781932535006.

Old Flame (editor, with Deborah Ager and Bill Beverly). WordFarm Press. 2012.

In Defense of the Fall. Trilobite Press. 2000.

PBS Interview

"Liquid Italy", Linebreak

"Shrike", Videopoem

"Sonnet on Time", Videopoem

"3 Prose Poems", Hobart

"The Ghost Town", Verse Daily

"February Flu", Paris Review

"Elegy for a Suicide", Poetry

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