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Kenneth Koch (/ k oʊ k / KOHK; February 27, 1925 – July 6, 2002) was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77. He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry.
Learn about Kenneth Koch, a prize-winning poet, playwright, and teacher associated with the New York School of poetry. Explore his humor, surrealism, and experimentation in poems that celebrate the poetic imagination and the everyday world.
Kenneth Koch was a New York School poet who wrote poems influenced by action painting, Surrealism, and European avant-garde. He also wrote plays, novels, books on teaching poetry, and collaborated with painters.
A humorous and satirical poem by Kenneth Koch, a contemporary American poet, that mocks the conventions and clichés of modern poetry. The poem consists of four sections that parody different styles and genres of poetry, from surrealism to pastoral, with a recurring character of the Strangler.
Prize-winning author Kenneth Koch published numerous collections of poetry, avant-garde plays, and short fiction while also serving as one of the nation’s best-known creative writing teachers during a career that spanned over five decades.
Koch was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and won the Bollingen Prize, the Bobbitt Library of Congress Prize, the Shelley Award for Poetry, and the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Poetry. He was also a finalist for the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
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Kenneth Koch (born February 27, 1925, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died July 6, 2002, New York, New York) was an American teacher and author noted especially for his witty, often surreal, sometimes epic, poetry. He was also an accomplished playwright.
