John Knoepfle
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John Knoepfle was known for his poetry about the Midwest. He attended Xavier University and St. Louis University. He was a professor and insturctor at St. Louis University and then at Sangamon State University – now, University of Illinois at Springfield. Currently, he was a professor emeritus of literature at the University of Illinois at Springfield.In 1986 the Illinois Association of Teachers of English named him Illinois Author of the Year. He has also received the Mark Twain award for contributions to Midwestern literature.
Body of Work
An Affair of Culture | Begging an Amnesty | Dim Tales | Dogs and Cats and Things Like That | I Look Around for My Life: An Autobiography of John Knoepfle | John Knoepfle: Selected Poems | Men of the Inland Rivers: Interviews from the Age of Steamboats, Packets and Towboats | Our Street Feels Good; Poems for Children | Poems from the Sangamon | Prayer Against Famine and Other Irish Poems | Rivers Into Islands | Shadows and Starlight | Songs for Gail Guidry’s Guitar | The Aloe of Evening | The Chinkapin Oak | The Intricate Land | Thinking of Offerings: Poems, 1970-1973 | Walking in Snow