John Poch, Ph.D.

The Future of Love. Slant Books. March 2025.

Most of the Stars. (translation of Pietro Federico’s La Maggioranza delle Stelle) St. Augustine’s Press 2024.

Notes on the Poet: A Little Book of Criticism. Measure Press. September 2023.

Cantiamo, Prendiamo Il Coltello. (Selected Poems of John Poch translated into Italian by Pietro Federico) Edizione Ensemble, December 2022.

God’s Poems: The Beauty of Poetry and the Christian Imagination. St. Augustine’s Press, February, 2022.

Gracious: An Anthology of Contemporary Southern Poetry. Texas Tech University Press, August, 2020.

Texases. WordFarm Press, March 2019.

Between Two Rivers. Texas Tech University Press, April 2019.

Fix Quiet (Winner of the New Criterion Poetry Prize). St. Augustine’s Press, April 2015.

Longsuffering. Letterpress book collaboration with artist and bookmaker, J. Eric Simpson, 2015.

Old Flame: From the First 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine, eds. John Poch, Bill Beverly, Deborah Ager, WordFarm Press. January, 2013.

Dolls. Orchises Press, September 2009.

Two Men Fighting With a Knife. Story Line Press (The 2008 Donald Justice Award Selection), June 2008.

Ghost Towns of the Enchanted Circle (letterpress collaboration with artist Ryan Burkhart). Flying Horse Editions, November 2007.

Hockey Haiku: The Essential Collection (co-written with Chad Davidson). St. Martin’s Press, September 2006.

Poems.  Orchises Press, January 2004.

In Defense of the Fall, (chapbook) Trilobite Press, 2000.

Poems published in Poetry, The Paris Review, The Nation, The New Republic, Image, Southern Review, Yale Review, Harvard Review, The Times Literary Supplement, Orion, and many other magazines.

Paul Whitfield Horn Distinguished Professor at Texas Tech University

Residencies at The Macdowell Colony, Headlands Center for the Arts, Fundacion Valparaiso, Saltonstall Foundation, Blue Mountain Center, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

2019 Big 12 Faculty Fellowship.

2018 Everett Southwest Fiction Prize.

2017 Foley Poetry Prize given by America magazine.

2014 (January-May) Fulbright Core Scholar, University of Barcelona and University of Barcelona Autonomous.

Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize ($5000), 2007.

2007 Lynchburg College Thornton Writer-in-Residence.

2004 Howard Nemerov Fellow in Poetry. Sewanee Writer’s Conference.

Colgate Creative Writing Fellowship ($25,000), 2000-2001.

The Nation/Discovery Prize, 1998.

What a privilege to teach in an environment where I can freely proclaim and grow in my faith alongside students pursuing knowledge, wisdom, and grace.

Creative writing: primarily poetry, but also fiction, nonfiction essay, and poetry criticism.

Contemporary and Modern Poetry

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