Joseph M Hess
Poet and Educator
728 E. Cooke Rd, Columbus, Ohio 43214 | (614) 571-2966 | jhess15@cscc.edu / jsphhss@yahoo.com
Introduction
I’ve taught College Composition around Columbus for 11 years. My truest avocation is to further a poetry which explores the intersections of our evolving interpersonal, ecological, and political selves in western culture and cultivate a poetry of engagement and access in a broadening literary community.
Publications and Other awards
· Full Length Poetry Collection, Into the Ancient, to be published in 2024
· Chapbook published by Finishing Line Press, Trauma Decor 2022
· Three Poems published in the 2017 International Anthology, Nuclear Impact: Broken Atoms in Our Hands. And read for the Anthology at the 2017 AWP Washington D. C Conference
· Finalist, 2009, Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest and published in Off Channel, Poetry Anthology.
· Quarter Finalist, 2014 Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Contest
· Published in The Ohio Poetry Association Ekphrastic Anthology, A Rustling and Waking Within
· Published in Belt Magazine’s The Columbus Anthology
· The Limehawk Literary Collective
· The Ekphrastic Review
· *82 Review
· Neologism Poetry Journal
· Fourth & Sycamore
· Into the Void
· Marathon Literary Review
· The Mackinac Magazine
· Helen Literary Magazine
· Post Card Poems and Prose Magazine
· Bullets into Bells (Other Voices)
Teaching
Module focus: Universal Design, Active and Collaborative learning, to better educating the neurodivergent mind.
· Columbus State Community College, 2013-current
· Ohio University (Lancaster), 2013-2018
· Central Ohio Technical College, 2017-present
· Columbus School of Art and Design, 2022-current
Education
Ashland University, MFA in Poetry Writing (2013-2015), Ashland, Ohio
I studied a wider range of contemporary poetics, focusing on craft and publishing. I also initiated, through an alternative Paris residency, a currently continued visitation and love for French culture and its influence on modern and post-modern literary traditions. My creative thesis was a book-length collection of poems titled American Décor.
Miami University, MA in Poetry Writing (2008-2011), Oxford, Ohio
I took advanced coursework in literary theory, teaching pedagogy, and poetry craft; was awarded a two-year teaching assistantship and runner up in The Academy of American poets undergraduate award. I produced a book-length creative thesis titled, A Man Needs His Vegetables, available on the Ohio-LINK.