John Poch

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 and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Texas. 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. 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.

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

Poetry collections

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

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