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John Philip Drury

John Philip Drury is the author of six collections of poetry: The Stray Ghost (State Street Press Chapbooks, 1987), The Disappearing Town (Miami University Press, 2000), Burning the Aspern Papers (Miami University Press, 2003), The Refugee Camp (Turning Point Books, 2011), Sea Level Rising (Able Muse Press, 2015), and The Teller’s Cage: Poems and Imaginary Movies (Able Muse Press, 2024).…Read More

John Philip Drury is the author of six collections of poetry: The Stray Ghost (State Street Press Chapbooks, 1987), The Disappearing Town (Miami University Press, 2000), Burning the Aspern Papers (Miami University Press, 2003), The Refugee Camp (Turning Point Books, 2011), Sea Level Rising (Able Muse Press, 2015), and The Teller’s Cage: Poems and Imaginary Movies (Able Muse Press, 2024). His first book of narrative nonfiction is Bobby and Carolyn: A Memoir of My Two Mothers (Finishing Line Press, 2024). He has also written Creating Poetry and The Poetry Dictionary (both published by Writer’s Digest Books). His awards include an Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship, two Ohio Arts Council grants, a Pushcart Prize, and the Bernard F. Conners Prize from The Paris Review for Burning the Aspern Papers. After teaching at the University of Cincinnati for 37 years, he is now a Professor Emeritus of English and lives with his wife, fellow poet LaWanda Walters, in a hundred-year-old house on the edge of a wooded ravine.