Douglas Goetsch

Douglas Goetsch's books of poetry include Nobody's Hell (Hanging Loose Press, 1999), The Job of Being Everybody (Cleveland State, 2004), winner of the CSU Poetry Center Open Competition, and four chapbooks. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Donald Murray Prize, the Paumanok Prize, and two MARGIE prizes. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, New York Quarterly, The Threepenny Review, The New England Review, online at Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, on the air at NPR, and in Best American Poetry.

Doug grew up in Northport, Long Island, was educated at Wesleyan University and New York University. He spent 21 years as a New York City high school teacher. He's also taught writing, at conferences and in university programs throughout the United States, served as Poet-in-Residence at the University of Central Oklahoma, and is founding editor of Jane Street Press.

Greenwich Village Workshop: Doug will resume his weekly poetry workshop in New York City in the fall of 2010. Contact him at doug[at]janestreet.org if you're interested in joining.

Workshops in The Hudson Valley & Iowa City: check out other upcoming workshops Doug teaches on his schedule page.