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Randy Koch taught at Laredo College from 1997-2002 and at TAMIU from 2002-2007, earned an MFA in poetry writing at the University of Wyoming in 2009, and then taught for eleven more years at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. After retiring from teaching during the early days of COVID, he returned to southwestern Minnesota, the area where he grew up, and during the next five years, researched and wrote three volumes of family history. He’s also the author of several poetry collections—Composing Ourselves, This Splintered Horse, and Against the Risen Flesh—and a textbook called Serving Sentences: Twelve Ways to Break Out a Better Writer. In 2025 he moved back to Laredo and is working on a memoir of his twenties and experimenting with some new poems. And he runs (slowly), just to be sure he still can.
dt proclaims that he loves the uneducated, and Americans, unable to recognize an insult revel in his and their own ignorance
Even when money is tight, markets are unreliable, and government is incompetent, ranchers and farmers can feed themselves
“The powers that be are not just…”
God helps those who know themselves for what we are
COVID-19: the new arbiter for life or death
Stop this one: rise
Attica massacre of September 1971: 11 employees, 32 inmates
Taking the stairways of words and numbers to find those that count and retain meaning through time
