Mark Cox (poet)
Mark Cox (born 1956 in East St. Louis, Illinois) is an American poet.
Life
He graduated from DePauw University and Vermont College with an MFA.
He teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at University of North Carolina Wilmington,[1] and Vermont College.[2][3]
He served as poetry editor of Passages North and Cimarron Review.[4]
He lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with his children, Rachel and Keith.[5]
Awards
- 1987 Whiting Award
- Pushcart Prize
- Oklahoma Book Award
- The Society of Midland Authors Poetry Prize
- Summer 2000, he served as the 24th Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place, Robert Frost's family home, in Franconia, New Hampshire.[4]
Works
- Four Poems from Numero Cinq
- "Finish This", Slate, Feb. 12, 2002
- Smoulder. D.R. Godine. 1989. ISBN 978-0-87923-814-8.
- Thirty-seven Years from the Stone. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8229-4065-4.
- Natural Causes. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-8229-5839-0.
- Mark Cox, ed. (2011). The Memory of Water, by Jack Myers. New Issues. ISBN 978-1-930974-98-2.
- Sorrow Bread. Serving House Books. 2017. ISBN 978-0997779738.
Anthologies
- William H. Roetzheim, ed. (2006). "Geese". The Giant Book of Poetry. Level4Press Inc. ISBN 978-0-9768001-2-5.
- Roger Weingarten; Richard Higgerson, eds. (2001). Poets of the New Century. David R. Godine Publisher. ISBN 978-1-56792-177-9.
- Ed Ochester, ed. (2007). American poetry now: Pitt poetry series anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-4310-5.
- William J. Walsh, ed. (2006). "Natural Causes". Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-88146-047-6.
References
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-10-20. Retrieved 2011-09-28.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-08-21. Retrieved 2009-09-14.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- http://www.kruufm.com/node/5729
- http://www.pw.org/content/mark_cox
- http://poetrynet.org/month/archive/cox/intro.html
External links
- http://www.markcoxpoet.com/
- http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=1998/06/24
- https://web.archive.org/web/20130416004112/http://uncw.edu/writers/facstaff/cox.html
- http://www.meachamwriters.org/conversations/Cox_Mark_2011-10-28.htm
- http://howapoemhappens.blogspot.com/2010/06/mark-cox.html
- https://web.archive.org/web/20121229051551/http://www.vcfa.edu/node/232
- Whiting Foundation Profile
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