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MARK COX has published seven volumes of poetry: Barbells of the Gods (Ampersand Press), Smoulder (David R. Godine), Thirty-seven Years from the Stone (Pitt Poetry Series),  Natural Causes ( Pitt Poetry Series), Sorrow Bread (Serving House Books) and Readiness (Press 53). Knowing, his latest book of poems, won the NCPS Brockman-Campbell Award and is also available from Press 53. Cox has a 40-year publication history in prominent magazines and has received a Whiting Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, and numerous fellowships for that work.   He recently retired after 39 years of teaching.