Scott Coffel (born 1956) 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 ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wr ...

. He was born in

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and educated at

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, and at

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. He graduated from

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with an MFA in 1995. He directs the Hanson Center for Technical Communication at The

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. His work has appeared in ''Missouri Review'', ''Salmagundi'', ''Paris Review'', ''Ploughshares'', ''the American Scholar'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''the Southern Review'' and ''

the Wallace Stevens Journal ''The Wallace Stevens Journal'' is an academic journal established in 1977 and the official publication of The Wallace Stevens Society. It covers the works and life of the American modernist poet Wallace Stevens Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 ...

''.

Works

"Double Indemnity"; "Andrei and Natasha"
''Waywiser''

''Adirondack Review''
"Tonight Wallace Stevens"
''Poetry Society of America'' *''Toucans in the Arctic'', Etruscan Press, 2009, *''Shivering believer'', University of Iowa, 1995

Anthologies

"God's Double"; "Mountain Jews"
''The Prairie schooner anthology of contemporary Jewish American writing'', editor Hilda Raz, University of Nebraska Press, 1998,

References

External links

Author's website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Coffel, Scott American male poets 1956 births Poets from New York City York College, City University of New York alumni State University of New York at Oneonta alumni Living people