Chris Hosea

Chris Hosea (born 1973) is an American poet, artist, and writer.

Hosea earned his AB in English from Harvard College (Class of 1994, grad. 1998).

Hosea graduated in 2006 with a MFA in Poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets & Writers, where he studied with James Tate, Peter Gizzi, and Dara Barrois/Dixon.

Pulitzer Prize winning poet John Ashbery selected Hosea's first poetry collection, ''Put Your Hands In,'' for the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets.

Ashbery, in his judge's citation for the Whitman Award, compared Hosea's work to that of Marcel Duchamp, and wrote that Hosea's poetry

Anne Waldman, in presenting Hosea with the Whitman Award during the 2013 Academy of American Poets Awards Ceremony, said, "We express gratitude [to John Ashbery] for this exemplary choice." Waldman continued: }} Provided by Wikipedia