John Poch

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]

In 2023, Poch accepted the position of Professor of English and Creative Writing at Grace College in Winona Lake, Indiana.^[5] In this role, he has also served as one of the original organizers of the Winona Christian Writer's Conference.^[6]

• Fulbright Core Scholar Fellowship (University of Barcelona, 2014) ^[7]
• New Criterion Poetry Prize ^[8]
• Donald Justice Poetry Prize ^[9]
• Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize ^[10]
• Colgate Creative Writing Fellowship ^[11]
• The Nation/Discovery Prize ^[12]

• "Shrike", Videopoem
• "Sonnet on Time", Videopoem
• "3 Prose Poems", Hobart
• "The Ghost Town", Verse Daily
• "February Flu", Paris Review
• "Elegy for a Suicide", Poetry
• "Light and Dark", Plume
• "A prodigal", First Things
• "John Poch | Rattlecast 298", Rattlecast YouTube
• "Rock and Roll", Shenandoah