Douglas Goetsch. Photo by by Lee Sakellarid. Courtesy Blackbird.
Douglas Goetsch (born 1963) is an American poet and teacher.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Goetsch was born in Brooklyn, New York City,[1] and grew up in Northport, Long Island, New York.[2]
He earned a B.A. in Religious Studies from Wesleyan University, an M.A. in American Civilization from New York University, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Vermont College of Fine Arts.[1]
Career[]
Goetsch taught in New York public schools for more than 20 years,[1] including 10 years at Stuyvesant High School,[3] and a stint teaching reative writing to incarcerated teens at Passages Academy in the Bronx.[2] He has also been on faculty at many writing conferences and college and M.F.A. programs, including Distinguished Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Western Kentucky University.[1]
His work has appeared in Blackbird, Iowa Review, New England Review, North American Review,[4] Poetry, The New Yorker, The Gettysburg Review, The American Scholar, The Best American Poetry, The Pushcart Prize Anthology,[1] and Poetry 180.[2]
He is the founding editor of Jane Street Press, an independent poetry press in New York City.[1]
He lives in New York City.[2]
Writing[]
Billy Collins said of his poetry, "It’s hard to imagine a reader who could resist Goetsch’s seductive opening lines." Dick Allen has called it "searing, honest, vivid, moving, unflinching. A glory of words and episodes and images." B.H. Fairchild has said, "It’s not just the way a Goetsch poem progresses from comedy to wisdom but the wonderfully tricky route it often takes getting there."[1]
Recognition[]
Goetsch is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts.[1]
Other recognition for his work includes the Paumanok award, the John Harms National Reading Prize, a Prairie Schooner Reader’s Choice Award, and 2 Pushcart Prize nominations.[2]
The Job of Being Everybody won the 2003 Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Competition.[2]
Billy Collins included Goetsch's poem "Smell and Envy" in his 2003 anthology, Poetry 180.[5]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Wherever You Want (chapbook). New York: Pavement Saw Press, 1997. ISBN 1-886350-79-5
- Nobody's Hell. Brooklyn, NY: Hanging Loose Press, 1999.
- What's Worse (bound with The Soul's Landscape by Sofia M. Starnes). Ridgefield, CT: Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, 2002.
- The Job of Being Everybody. Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2004.
- Your Whole Life. Niagara Falls, NY: Slipstream, 2007.
- Nameless Boy. Washington, DC: Orchises, 2015.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
Douglas Goetsch, "Sofa-Bed"
Audio / video[]
- Douglas Goetsch, Poet (DVD). Niagara Falls, NY: Niagara County Community College, 2007.[6]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Goetsch, Douglas, Madeline Island School of the Arts. Web, Sep. 24, 2016.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Douglas Goetsch, Poets.org, Academy of American Poets. Web, Sep. 24, 2016.
- ↑ Douglas Goetsch, Wherever You Want, Pavement Saw Press. Web, Sep. 24, 2016.
- ↑ Douglas Goetsch, Blackbird 4:2 (Fall 2005). Web, Sep. 24, 2016.
- ↑ "Smell and Envy," Poetry 180, Poetry and Literature, Library of Congress. Web, May 4, 2018.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Search results = au:Douglas Goetsch, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center. Web, Sep. 24, 2016.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Smell and Envy" at Poetry 180
- Douglas Goetsch profile & poem ("Redwood"), Blackbird 4:2 (Fall 2005)
- Douglas Goetsch profile & 2 poems at the Academy of American Poets
- Sample Poems
- Audio / video
- Books
- Douglas Goetsch at Amazon.com
- About
- Goetsch, Douglas at Madeline Island School of the Arts
- Douglas Goetsch Official website.
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