Mark Cox (poet) explained

Mark Cox
Birth Place:	East St. Louis, Illinois, U.S.
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	American
Education:	DePauw University Vermont College (MFA)
Awards:	Whiting Award (1987)
Children:	3

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^[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
• Book: Smoulder . registration . D.R. Godine. 1989. 978-0-87923-814-8 .
• Book: Thirty-seven Years from the Stone . University of Pittsburgh Press. 1998. 978-0-8229-4065-4 .
• Book: Natural Causes . University of Pittsburgh Press. 2004. 978-0-8229-5839-0 .
• Book: The Memory of Water, by Jack Myers . Mark Cox. New Issues. 2011. 978-1-930974-98-2 .
• Book: Sorrow Bread: New and Selected Poems 1984-2015 . Serving House Books . 2017. 978-0997779738 .
• Book: Readiness: Prose Poems . Press 53 . 2018. 978-1941209783 .
• Book: Knowing . Press 53 . 2024. 978-1950413799 .

Anthologies

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=ifNVS7pKjUQC&q=Mark+Cox+%28poet%29&pg=PA656. Geese. William H. Roetzheim. Level4Press Inc. 2006. 978-0-9768001-2-5 . The Giant Book of Poetry .
• Book: Poets of the New Century. Roger Weingarten . Richard Higgerson. David R. Godine Publisher. 2001. 978-1-56792-177-9 .
• Book: American poetry now: Pitt poetry series anthology. Ed Ochester. University of Pittsburgh Press. 2007. 978-0-8229-4310-5 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=iiG_MOtag50C&q=Mark+Cox+%28poet%29&pg=PA78. Natural Causes. Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. William J. Walsh. Mercer University Press. 2006. 978-0-88146-047-6 .

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: UNCW - Department of Creative Writing . 2011-09-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111020184938/http://uncw.edu/writers/faculty_cox.html . 2011-10-20 .
2. Web site: Mark Cox | Vermont College of Fine Arts . 2009-09-14 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090821191112/http://www.vermontcollege.edu/node/232 . 2009-08-21 .
3. Web site: Mark Cox Rebro on Irving Toast, Poetry Ghost, Mon 1:30 pm | KRUU-LP 100.1 FM.
4. Web site: Mark Cox.
5. Web site: Poet of the Month: Mark Cox . 2009-09-14 . 2011-07-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110727020259/http://poetrynet.org/month/archive/cox/intro.html . dead .