John Poch (born 1966 in

Erie, Pennsylvania Erie (; ) is a city on the south shore of Lake Erie and the county seat of Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. Erie is the fifth largest city in Pennsylvania and the largest city in Northwestern Pennsylvania with a population of 94,831 a ...

) is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...

, fiction writer, and critic.

Biography

John Poch holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the

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and a Ph.D. in English from the

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. He was the inaugural

Colgate University Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York. The college was founded in 1819 as the Baptist Education Society of the State of New York and operated under that name until 1823, when it was renamed Hamilton Theologi ...

Creative Writing Fellow, and from 2001 to 2023 he taught in the creative writing program at

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. He serves as series editor for the Vassar Miller Poetry Prize at the

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, and for ten years edited 32 Poems with poet

Deborah Ager Deborah Ager is an American poet, essayist, and editor. Life Deborah Ager founded the poetry magazine known as ''32 poems'' or ''32 Poems Magazine'' in 2003 with the poet John Poch. She was educated at the University of Maryland (B.A.) and the ...

Awards

* 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 http://www.english.ttu.edu/faculty_profiles/honors_awards_P_to_R.asp#poch

Publications

Poetry collections

* * * * * * * * Chad Davidson and John Poch. * *

Chapbook

Online Works

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''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Poch, John Living people American male poets Texas Tech University faculty 1966 births 21st-century American poets 21st-century American male writers