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, and Vermont College.
He served as poetry editor of Passages North and Cimarron Review.
He lives in Wilmington, North Carolina, with his children, Austin, Rachel and Keith.
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.
Works
Four Poems from Numero Cinq
"Finish This", Slate, Feb. 12, 2002
Anthologies
References
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