James Hoch, prior to teaching, was dishwasher, cook, dockworker, social worker, and shepherd. His poems have appeared in Washington Post, Slate, Kenyon Review, 32 Poems, Virginia Quarterly Review, and many others. His book, A Parade o f Hands, won the Gerald Cable Award and was published in 2003 by Silverfish Review Press. His latest book is Miscreants (W.W. Norton, 2007). He was selected the 2008 Resident Poet at The Frost Place. He is Associate Professor at Ramapo College and the 2008 M.F. Steinhardt Visiting Writer in the MFA Program at Rutgers Newark. He resides with his wife and sons in Nyack, New York.

Other poems by James Hoch in Verse Daily:
July 2, 2007:   "The Car" " He liked the car because it went nowhere..."
June 23, 2006:   "All Things End in Fragrance" and "Starlings" " Out the window, starlings..."
September 30, 2002:  "Furnace" "....We did not believe // it could speak..."

Books by James Hoch:

Other poems on the web by James Hoch:
Five poems
"Night Crabbing"
"Draft"
"Hinge"
"The Farm in Coleraine"
"Morning After the Prom"
"Lilies"
Two poems
Three poems
"Klutz"
"Late Autumn Wasp"

James Hoch's Website.

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