Koethe, John

John Koethe was born in San Diego in 1945 and educated at Princeton and Harvard Universities.  He has published eight books of poetry, including FALLING WATER (HarperCollins, 1997), which received the Kingsley Tufts Award, and NINETY-FIFTH STREET (HarperCollins, 2009), which received the Lenore Marshall Prize from the Academy of American Poets.  He is also the author of books on Wittgenstein and scepticism, and a collection of literary essays.  In 2005 he was a Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, in 2008 he was the Elliston Poet in Residence at the University of Cincinnati, and in 2010 he was the Bain-Swiggett Professor of Poetry at Princeton University.  He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.