Mark Cox (poet)

Mark Cox (born 1956, 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 wife, Karin, and their three children.^[5]

Awards

• 1987 Whiting Writers' 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

• "Finish This", Slate, Feb. 12, 2002

• Smoulder. D.R. Godine. 1989. ISBN 9780879238148. 
• Thirty-seven Years from the Stone. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1998. ISBN 9780822940654. 
• Natural Causes. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2004. ISBN 9780822958390. 

Anthologies

• William H. Roetzheim, ed (2006). "Geese". The Giant Book of Poetry. Level4Press Inc. ISBN 9780976800125. http://books.google.com/books?id=ifNVS7pKjUQC&pg=PA656&lpg=PA656&dq=Mark+Cox+(poet)&source=bl&ots=e5aMP_JuLm&sig=zPK3FALYdfSSrJKO1x6snkscFeo&hl=en&ei=JK-uSs6TL4z0MfOX5fIN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8#v=onepage&q=Mark%20Cox%20(poet)&f=false. 
• Roger Weingarten, Richard Higgerson, ed (2001). Poets of the New Century. David R. Godine Publisher. ISBN 9781567921779. 
• Ed Ochester, ed (2007). American poetry now: Pitt poetry series anthology. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 9780822943105. 
• William J. Walsh, ed (2006). "Natural Causes". Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. Mercer University Press. ISBN 9780881460476. http://books.google.com/books?id=iiG_MOtag50C&pg=PA78&dq=Mark+Cox+(poet)&lr=#v=onepage&q=Mark%20Cox%20(poet)&f=false. 

References

1. ^ http://www.uncw.edu/WRITERS/faculty_cox.html
2. ^ http://www.vermontcollege.edu/node/232
3. ^ http://www.kruufm.com/node/5729
4. ^ ^{a b} http://www.pw.org/content/mark_cox
5. ^ http://poetrynet.org/month/archive/cox/intro.html

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