John Poch Explained

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

• Book: Between Two Rivers. Texas Tech University Press. 2019. 9781682830383 .
• Book: TEXASES. Wordfarm. 2019. 9781602260221 .
• Book: Longsuffering .
• Book: Fix Quiet. St. Augustine's Press. 2015. 978-1587312694 .
• Book: Dolls. Orchises Press. 2009. 9781932535204 .
• Book: Two Men Fighting with a Knife. Story Line Press. 2008. 9780978599799 .
• Book: Ghost Towns of the Enchanted Circle. Flying Horse Editions. 2007 .
• Chad Davidson and John Poch. Book: Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection. registration. St. Martin's Press. 2006. 9780312356071 .
• Book: Poems. Orchises Press. 2004. 9781932535006 .
• Book: Old Flame (editor, with Deborah Ager and Bill Beverly). WordFarm Press. 2012.

Chapbook

• Book: 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alumni & Alumnae Teaching at Universities . web.english.ufl.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140731210155/http://web.english.ufl.edu/crw/teaching_alums.html . 2014-07-31.
2. Web site: John Poch. 22 September 2021.
3. Web site: Verse Daily: About Two Men Fighting with a Knife by John Poch.
4. http://www.english.ttu.edu/general_info/directory/faculty_profile_pages/poch_detailed.asp#internet
5. Web site: John Poch | Fulbright Scholar Program.
6. Web site: John Poch wins 2014 New Criterion Poetry Prize.
7. Web site: Professor Receives Prestigious Donald Justice Poetry Prize | July | 2008 | Texas Tech Today | TTU.
8. http://www.english.ttu.edu/faculty_profiles/honors_awards_P_to_R.asp#poch
9. http://www.english.ttu.edu/faculty_profiles/honors_awards_P_to_R.asp#poch
10. http://www.english.ttu.edu/faculty_profiles/honors_awards_P_to_R.asp#poch