John Poch

American poet

John Poch

Born	1966
Occupation	Author/Professor

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

Biography

John Poch holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of Florida^[1] and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Texas.^[2] He was the inaugural Colgate University Creative Writing Fellow, and from 2001 to 2023 he taught in the creative writing program at Texas Tech University.^[3] 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.^[4]

Awards

Fulbright Core Scholar Fellowship (University of Barcelona, 2014) ^[5]
New Criterion Poetry Prize ^[6]
Donald Justice Poetry Prize ^[7]
Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize ^[8]
Colgate Creative Writing Fellowship ^[9]
The Nation/Discovery Prize ^[10]

Publications

Poetry collections

Between Two Rivers. Texas Tech University Press. 2019. ISBN 9781682830383.
TEXASES. Wordfarm. 2019. ISBN 9781602260221.
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.

Chapbook

In Defense of the Fall. Trilobite Press. 2000.

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

^ "Alumni & Alumnae Teaching at Universities". web.english.ufl.edu. Archived from the original on 2014-07-31.
^ "John Poch". 22 September 2021.
^ "Verse Daily: About Two Men Fighting with a Knife by John Poch".
^ http://www.english.ttu.edu/general_info/directory/faculty_profile_pages/poch_detailed.asp#internet
^ "John Poch | Fulbright Scholar Program".
^ "John Poch wins 2014 New Criterion Poetry Prize".
^ "Professor Receives Prestigious Donald Justice Poetry Prize | July | 2008 | Texas Tech Today | TTU".
^ http://www.english.ttu.edu/faculty_profiles/honors_awards_P_to_R.asp#poch
^ http://www.english.ttu.edu/faculty_profiles/honors_awards_P_to_R.asp#poch
^ http://www.english.ttu.edu/faculty_profiles/honors_awards_P_to_R.asp#poch