Thorpe Moeckel, the author of Venison (Etruscan, 2010), teaches in the writing program at Hollins University. His work has appeared in Field, Open City, The Antioch Review, Poetry Daily, Orion, Poetry, The Southern Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among others. He is the author of two books of poems — Odd Botany (Silverfish Review Press, 2002) and Making a Map of the River (Iris Press, 2008).  Chapbooks include Meltlines and The Guessing Land. His poetry is featured in the anthology Field Work: Modern Poems from Eastern Forests, edited by Erik Reece and published by University of Kentucky Press (2008), and in the anthology from Persea Press, From the Fishouse.

Interact with Thorpe!

Read Moeckel’s poems from an archive on From the Fishouse’s website.

Thorpe Moeckel will be participating in a reading on June 14, 2010 at 7 pm with Pinckney Benedict at the Tinker Mountain Writer’s Workshop, Hollins University.  Moeckel is teaching an Advanced Poetry Class from June 13-19, 2010 in the workshop.