John Koethe is also the author of many poetry collections including, Walking Backwards: Poems 1966–2016 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), Ninety-fifth Street (Harper Perennial, 2009) which won the 2010 Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets; The Swimmer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016) and North Point North: New and Selected Poems (Harper Perennial, 2003), which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Koethe has received fellowships and awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was named the first Poet Laureate of Milwaukee, in 2000. John Koethe is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
THE WONDER OF HAVING LIVED HERE A LONG TIME
“ELMER GANTRY WAS DRUNK.”
