A poet, playwright, and novelist, Koch also published several books about poetry, including Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?. Soft Skull posthumously published The Art of the Possible, Comics Mainly without Pictures in 2004. A professor at Columbia, he won the Bobbitt Library of Congress Prize, the Phi Beta Kappa Award for Poetry, and was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Kenneth Koch (1925 – 2002), known for his association with the New York School of poetry, wrote many collections of poetry, fiction, plays, and nonfiction. His books include Seasons on Earth, On the Edge, Thank You and Other Poems, The Art of Love, One Thousand Avant-Garde Plays, Hotel Lambosa, and The Collected Fiction, as well as several books on teaching children to write poetry. Koch was awarded numerous honors, including the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, awarded by the Library of Congress in 1996, as well as awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Fulbright, Guggenheim, and Ingram-Merrill foundations. In 1996 he was inducted as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Kenneth Koch lived in New York City, where he was professor of English at Columbia University.
