Mark Cox (born 1956 in

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) 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 ...

Life

He graduated from

DePauw University DePauw University is a private liberal arts university in Greencastle, Indiana. It has an enrollment of 1,972 students. The school has a Methodist heritage and was originally known as Indiana Asbury University. DePauw is a member of both the G ...

and

Vermont College Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is a private graduate-level art school in Montpelier, Vermont. It offers Master's degrees in low-residency and residential programs. Its faculty includes Pulitzer Prize finalists, National Book Award winners, ...

with an MFA. He teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at

University of North Carolina Wilmington The University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW or UNC Wilmington) is a public research university in Wilmington, North Carolina. It is part of the University of North Carolina System and enrolls 17,499 undergraduate and graduate students eac ...

, and

. He served as poetry editor of ''Passages North'' and ''Cimarron Review''. He lives in

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, with his children, Austin, Rachel and Keith.

Awards

* 1987

Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and plays. The award is sponsored by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Mrs. (American English) or Mrs (British English; standard E ...

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

* Oklahoma Book Award * The Society of Midland Authors Poetry Prize * Summer 2000, he served as the 24th Poet-in-Residence at

The Frost Place The Frost Place is a museum and nonprofit educational center for poetry located at Robert Frost's former home on Ridge Road in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. ...

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's family home, in

Franconia, New Hampshire Franconia is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,083 at the 2020 census. Set in the White Mountains, Franconia is home to the northern half of Franconia Notch State Park. Parts of the White Mountain Nation ...

Works

Four Poems from Numero Cinq"Finish This", ''Slate'', Feb. 12, 2002
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Anthologies

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References

External links

* http://www.markcoxpoet.com/ * http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=1998/06/24 * https://web.archive.org/web/20130416004112/http://uncw.edu/writers/facstaff/cox.html * http://www.meachamwriters.org/conversations/Cox_Mark_2011-10-28.htm * http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2010/06/mark-cox.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20121229051551/http://www.vcfa.edu/node/232
Whiting Foundation Profile
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