John Foy

John Foy

About John Foy

John Foy is an a contemporary American poet. He published his first book Techne’s Clearinghouse in 2004, by Zoo Press. He is the author of three poetry collections including, No One Leaves the World Unhurt, which won the 2020 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and was published in 2021 by Autumn House Press. His second book, Night Vision, won the New Criterion Poetry Prize and was published by St. Augustine’s Press in 2016. It was also a finalist for the 2018 Poets’ Prize. His poems have been included in the New Yorker, Poetry, The New Criterion, Parnassus, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, The Hopkins Review, The Raintown Review, American Arts Quarterly, Alabama Literary Review, the Swallow Anthology of New American Poets, The Raintown Review Anthology, and Rabbit Ears, an anthology of poems about TV, and they have appeared widely in journals and online. He lives and works in New York.
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