Mark Cox (born 1956 in

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) is an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thought, thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral t ...

Life

He graduated from

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and

Vermont College Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is a private graduate-level college affiliated with California Institute of the Arts. It offers Master's degrees in a low-residency format. Its faculty includes Pulitzer Prize finalists, National Book Award wi ...

with an MFA. He teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at

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, and

. He served as poetry editor of ''Passages North'' and ''Cimarron Review''. He lives in

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Awards

* 1987

Whiting Award The Whiting Award is an American award presented annually to ten emerging writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama Drama is the specific Mode (literature), mode of fiction Mimesis, represented in performance: a Play (theatre), play, ...

Pushcart Prize The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize published by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are ...

* Oklahoma Book Award * The Society of Midland Authors Poetry Prize * Summer 2000, he served as the 24th Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place,

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's family home, in

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Works

Four Poems from Numero Cinq"Finish This", ''Slate'', Feb. 12, 2002
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Anthologies

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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
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