Corey Marks Explained

Corey Marks
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	American
Education:	Kalamazoo College (BA) Warren Wilson College (MFA) University of Houston (PhD)

Corey Marks is an American poet.

Biography

Corey Marks holds a Ph.D. in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston, an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a BA in English from Kalamazoo College. He teaches at the University of North Texas^[1] and is a judge, along with Jehanne Dubrow and Tarfia Faizullah, of the Rilke Prize.

His work appears in Antioch Review, Black Warrior Review, New England Review, Southwest Review, TriQuarterly, The Virginia Quarterly Review,^[2] Paris Review,^[3] Legitimate Dangers, and elsewhere.

Awards

• 1999 National Poetry Series, for Renunciation
• 2003 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• Natalie Ornish Prize from the Texas Institute for Letters
• Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review ^[4]
• 2011 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press, for "The Radio Tree" ^[5]

Poetry collections

• ^[6] The Rock That Is Not a Rabbit. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2023. ISBN 9780822967156.
• Book: The Radio Tree. New Issues Press. 2012. 978-1-936970-06-3 .
• Book: Renunciation . University of Illinois Press. 2000. 978-0-252-06898-0 .

Online Works

• "Portrait of a Child", NEA

Notes and References

1. Web site: Faculty . 2009-09-16 . dead . https://archive.today/20060901235221/http://www.engl.unt.edu/faculty/profiles/faculty_marks.htm . 2006-09-01 .
2. Web site: VQR » Corey Marks . 2009-09-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20081119161629/http://www.vqronline.org/author/5598/corey-marks/ . 2008-11-19 .
3. Web site: The Paris Review - Summer 2002 . 2009-09-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090708235555/http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/162 . 2009-07-08 . dead .
4. Web site: Paris Review - Writers, Quotes, Biography, Interviews, Artists.
5. Web site: Marks - Radio Tree . 2012-03-21 . dead . https://archive.today/20120805212310/http://www.wmich.edu/~newissue/titles/marks-radio%20tree.html . 2012-08-05 .
6. Book: Marks, Corey . The Rock That Is Not a Rabbit . October 2023 . University of Pittsburgh Press . 2023 . 9780822967156.