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