Rodney Koeneke

Rodney Koeneke is an American poet.

Life and career

Born in Omaha, Nebraska, Koeneke was raised in Tucson, Arizona and Hacienda Heights, California. He graduated with a BA in from the University of California, Berkeley in 1990, where he lived in Barrington Hall, and from Stanford University with a PhD in in 1997.
Koeneke is the author of several books and chapbooks of poetry, including Body & Glass, Etruria,
Musee Mechanique,
and Rouge State.
His work has appeared in
The Brooklyn Rail,
Fence,
Granta, Gulf Coast,
Harper's, Harriet,
The Nation,
New [American Writing],
Poetry,
and Zyzzyva.
He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Works

Full Length Poetry

Body & Glass
Etruria
Musee Mechanique
''Rouge State''

Chapbooks

Seven for Boetticher & Other Poems
Names of the Hits
Rules for Drinking Forties
''On the Clamways''

Non-fiction

''Empires of the Mind: I.A. Richards and Basic English in China, 1929-1979''