John Roche

John Roche lives in Placitas, New Mexico, helping his wife Jules Nyquist run Jules’ Poetry Playhouse and edit Poetry Playhouse Publications. After earning an M.A. at University College Dublin and a PhD at SUNY Buffalo, he taught Literature and Creative Writing classes for four decades at various colleges and universities, including Emory University and Michigan State, and is Emeritus Associate Professor from Rochester Institute of Technology. John Roche was formerly President of Just Poets in Rochester, NY, member of the board of BOA Editions, chief organizer of the Black Mountain North Symposium, and an instigator of the annual Cloudburst Council poets' retreat in the Finger Lakes. Along with editing the five-volume Poets Speak series (Beatlick Press/Poetry Playhouse Publications 2017-2018), and other anthologies (including Mo' Joe, Beatlick Press 2014), his own poetry collections include On Conesus (FootHills 2005), Topicalities (FootHills 2008), Road Ghosts (theenk Books 2011), The Joe Poems: The Continuing Saga of Joe the Poet (FootHills 2012), Joe Rides Again: Further Adventures of Joe the Poet (FootHills 2005), and Tubbables (Poetry Playhouse Publications 2024). https://www.poetryplayhouse.com/shop-art...