Ed Cox (July 6, 1946 in Washington, D.C. – September 1, 1992) was an American poet.

He served in the U.S. Navy.^{[ citation needed]} He studied at the University of Maryland with Rudd Fleming and Roderick Jellema. He worked for the U.S. Association for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.^{[ citation needed]}

He read at Mass Transit, at the Community Book Shop on P Street. ^[1] He lived at 1345 Saratoga Ave. NE from 1959 to 1964, and 1920 S Street NW,4110 Emery St NW, and 1301 15th St. NW #720 in the 1980s. ^[2] His papers are held by American University. ^[3]

Awards

• 1982 D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities fellowship
• 1987 PEN American Center
• 1987 American Poets Fund of the Academy of American Poets
• 1989 Lyndhurst Prize, by the Lyndhurst Foundation

Works

• Blocks. Washington, D.C.: Some of Us Press, 1972.
• Waking. San Francisco: Gay Sunshine Press, 1977.
• Collected Poems. Arlington, VA: Paycock Press, 2002. ISBN  0-931181-10-0 ^[4]

Editor

• Seeds and Leaves (1977)
• Some Lives (1984)

Reviews

• "Poems of the Quotidian World", Oyster Boy Review 16, Reginald Shepherd, Winter 2002
• "Dead poet speaking", Lambda Book Report, April 1, 2002, Clark, Philip

References

External links

• "Just Like Old Times: An Interview with Ed Cox", Beltway Poetry Quarterly, E. Ethelbert Miller, Volume 7, Number 4, Fall 2006
• "Richard McCann on ED COX", Beltway Poetry Quarterly