Jeremy Voigt

School of English, Drama and Creative Studies
Doctoral researcher Distance Learning

Contact details

Email: jxv190@student.bham.ac.uk

PhD Title: Influence of the poetics of G. M. Hopkins, Thomas Hardy and W. B. Yates on contemporary ecopoetics
Supervisors: Dr Andrew Hodgson and Dr Matthew Ward
PhD English Literature

Qualifications

MFA Bennington College

Biography

Jeremy Voigt has taught for eighteen years as a secondary schoolteacher and adjunct professor of English. He has published a chapbook and poems in national journals. He lives with wife, Amanda, and their three kids beside a large lake in the Pacific Northwest.

Teaching

I teach secondary English at Burlington-Edison High School, and work as an adjunct at Whatcom Community College, Wenatchee Valley Community College, and Skagit Valley Community College.

Other activities

I have been a poet on faculty at the Skagit River Poetry Festival, the Unamuno Author Festival, and the Wonder in Wyoming poetry conference.

Publications

I have published poems in Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, Gulf Coast, Post Road, Willow Springs, BPJ, and other magazines. I have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and was runner up for the 2019 Discovery Poetry Prize. My manuscript, Estuary, has been a semi-finalist or finalist for the Dorset Prize, The Crab Orchard first book prize, the Brittingham and Felix Pollak Prizes, 42 mile, Marsh Hawk press book prize.