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Kenneth Koch (Kenneth Jay Koch)[kOk] Pronunciation Key, 1925–2002, American poet, novelist, and playwright, b. Cincinnati. After studying at Harvard and Columbia he was associated with the Artist's Theatre and Locus Solus magazine. Combining modernism, lyricism, and humor, Koch's "antisymbolic" poetic style is characterized by witty juxtapositions and dislocations of words. His roughly 30 volumes of verse include Poems (1953), Days and Nights (1982), New Addresses (2000), and two posthumously published books released in 2002, Sun Out, poems from the early 1950s, and A Possible World, his final collection. Among his other works are the novels Bertha and Other Plays (1966), The Burning Mystery of Anna in 1951 (1979), and The Red Robins (1980). A professor at Columbia Univ. for nearly 40 years, he wrote several books about teaching the writing and appreciation of poetry, particularly to children and the elderly. These works include Wishes, Lies, and Dreams (1970), Rose, Where Did You Get That Red? (1973), and I Never Told Anybody (1977).
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