James Hoch (poet)
Encyclopedia
Life and Education
He graduated from University of MarylandUniversity of Maryland
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, with an MFA.
Hoch grew up in Collingswood, New Jersey
Collingswood, New Jersey
Collingswood is a borough in Camden County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 13,926....
, and now resides Nyack, NY, with his wife and sons.
Hoch earned an MFA at University of Maryland. He has taught at Franklin and Marshall College and Lynchburg College
Lynchburg College
Lynchburg College is a private college in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA, related by covenant to the Christian Church with approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students. The Princeton Review lists it as one of the 368 best colleges in the nation...
, he now teaches at Ramapo College
Ramapo College
Ramapo College of New Jersey is a public liberal arts and professional studies institution of the New Jersey system of higher education.- Location :...
in New Jersey.
His poems have appeared in Antioch, Slate, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ninth Letter, Carolina Quarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review, New England Review, Pleiades, Black Warrior, Gettysburg, Five Fingers.
Awards
- Bread Loaf fellowships
- Sewanee fellowships
- Summer Literary Seminars fellowships .
- 2002 Individual Artists Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
- 2007 Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment for the ArtsNational Endowment for the ArtsThe National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
- 2008 Poet in residence at The Frost PlaceThe Frost PlaceThe Frost Place is a museum and nonprofit educational center for poetry located at Robert Frost's former home in Franconia, New Hampshire, USA....
- Gerald Cable Award, for A Parade of Hands
Works
- "Night Crabbing", Blackbird, Fall 2005
- "Soft Shells"; "Amorphophallus titanum, The Corpse Flower"; "The Color"; "Fulgurite", The Drunken Boat
- "sound of a body falling off a bridge", cross connect
- "The Farm in Coleraine", OK Review
- "Late Autumn Wasp", poets.org
- "Draft", Slate, Feb. 22, 2005
- "Hinge", Slate, April 5, 2000