Kenneth Koch

Kenneth Koch died on July 6. He was Professor of English at Columbia. During his lifetime, he published at least thirty volumes of poetry and plays. He was also the author of a novel, The Red Robins; two books on teaching poetry writing to children, Wishes, Lies, and Dreams and Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?; and I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home. A new collection of his poetry, A Possible World, and Sun Out: Selected Poems 1952–54, will be published this fall. (August 2002)

From the Review

August 15, 2002: Proverb (poem)

June 27, 2002: Zones (poem)

April 13, 2000: To Psychoanalysis (poem)

December 2, 1999: To Old Age (poem)

May 14, 1998: The Language of Poetry

April 8, 1993: One Train May Hide Another (poem)

December 20, 1984: Senegal (poem)

July 19, 1979: The Simplicity of the Unknown Past (poem)

May 3, 1979: Memorial for F.W. Dupee (letter)

April 28, 1977: Our Hearts (poem)

February 17, 1977: William Ross's Poem (letter)

January 20, 1977: I Never Told Anybody Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home

January 23, 1975: Some General Instructions (poem)

April 18, 1974: The Circus (poem)

September 20, 1973: Teaching Great Poetry to Children

November 30, 1972: Alive for An Instant (poem)

March 23, 1972: First Trip to China (poem)

April 9, 1970: Wishes, Lies, and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry

Books by Kenneth Koch

Possible World (2002)
New Addresses: Poems (2000)
Making Your Own Days: The Pleasures of Reading and Writing Poetry (1998)
Straits: Poems (1998)
The Gold Standard: A Book of Plays (1996)
The Art of Poetry: Poems, Parodies, Interviews, Essays, and Other Work (1996)
On the Great Atlantic Rainway: Selected Poems, 1950-1988 (1994)
One Train: Poems (1994)
Hotel Lambosa, and Other Stories (1993)
One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays (1988)
Seasons on Earth (1987)
On the Edge: Poems (1986)
Selected Poems, 1950-1982 (1985)
Days and Nights (1982)
Sleeping on the Wing: An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Eading and Writing (1981)
Wishes, Lies and Dreams: Teaching Children to Write Poetry (1980)
From the Air (1979)
The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951 (1979)
I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home (1977)
The Duplications (1977)
The Red Robins (1975)
The Art of Love: Poems (1975)
The Art of Love: Poems (1975)
Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? Teaching Great Poetry to Children (1973)
A Change of Hearts; Plays, Films, and Other Dramatic Works, 1951-1971 (1973)