John Poch directs the creative writing program at Texas Tech University. His letterpress book of mostly sonnets, Ghost Towns of the Enchanted Circle, a collaboration with printmaker, Ryan Burkhart, is scheduled for publication in fall 2007 by Flying Horse Editions. Poch has other poems forthcoming in Colorado Review, Passages North, Terminus, Phoebe, and Subtropics. He is the editor of 32 Poems magazine and series editor for the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry.  

Photo by Meghan Poch