1996 Bobbitt Prize Winner
Kenneth Koch was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1925. He published 20 poetry collections, including New Addresses (2000); One Train (1994), winner of the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress; and The Art of Love: Poems (1975). He also published several books of prose, two collections of fiction, and nearly 20 plays. Koch’s many honors include the Phi Beta Kappa Poetry Award, and the Bollingen Prize. He was inducted as a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters in 1996. Koch taught at Columbia University for more than 40 years. He died in 2002.
Audio Recordings with Kenneth Koch
- Kenneth Koch reading his poems with comment in the Recording Laboratory, May 9, 1960
- As part of Poetry in English at the Library of Congress, Kenneth Koch and Jay Wright reading their poems in the Coolidge Auditorium, Nov. 15, 1976