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 the recipient of the Aldrich Award, the Donald Murray Prize, the Paumanok Prize, the Permafrost Prize, awards from Prairie Schooner, MARGIE, Slipstream, The Chautauqua Literary Journal, two fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and many Pushcart Prize nominations. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Iowa Review, Ploughshares, ONTHEBUS, The Threepenny Review, The New England Review, online at PoetryDaily and Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac, on the air at NPR, and in many anthologies.

He grew up in Northport, Long Island, was educated at Wesleyan University and New York University, and resides in New York City. He has been on the writing faculty at The Frost Place, The Dodge Poetry Festival, The Iowa Summer Writing Festival, the Winter Poetry and Prose Getaway, and numerous other conferences and university programs. For 21 years he was a teacher in New York City public schools and is now Poet-in-Residence at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is founding editor of Jane Street Press.

Greenwich Village Workshop: In spring '09 Doug will resume his weekly poetry workshop that meets in his living room. Contact him at doug[at]janestreet.org if you're interested in joining.

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