About Mark Cox
Born 1956. Mark Cox is a poet.
Mark Cox (born 1956 in East St. Louis, Illinois) is an American poet.
Life He graduated from DePauw University and Vermont College with an MFA.
He teaches in the Department of Creative Writing at University of North Carolina Wilmington, and Vermont College.
He served as poetry editor of Passages North and Cimarron Review.
He lives in Wilmington, North Carolina
Awards 1987 Whiting Award Pushcart Prize Oklahoma Book Award The Society of Midland Authors Poetry Prize Summer 2000, he served as the 24th Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place, Robert Frost's family home, in Franconia, New Hampshire.
Works Four Poems from Numero Cinq "Finish This", Slate, Feb. 12, 2002
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