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Randy Koch

Randy Koch taught at LCC and TAMIU from 1997-2007, earned an MFA at the University of Wyoming in 2009, and then taught for eleven more years at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. He currently lives in southwestern Minnesota and is the author of three collections of poetry—Composing Ourselves, This Splintered Horse, and Against the Risen Flesh—as well as two volumes of family history. He is working on a memoir of his twenties and yet another family history. And he runs, just to be sure he still can.

The Re-Con

If our irrational national pastime is football, then the clueless, groping Nazi appeaser in the White House makes sense

By Randy Koch | September 9, 2017

It is choreographed violence and nothing less

The Re-Con

Set in Stone

By Randy Koch | August 7, 2017

Human frailties hidden away in the brevity of stone

The Re-Con

The Lay of the Land: westering from “the Point of Beginning”

By Randy Koch | July 1, 2017

The beginning of the Public Land Survey System in the U.S.

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A Report from Pennsylvania

By Randy Koch | May 30, 2017

I stay for the kindnesses in the classroom, the solitude at home, and the consolation in the countryside.

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Hail to the Thief

By Randy Koch | April 10, 2017

I can’t stomach it — the butchered syntax, the prepubescent vocabulary, the oblique threats, the incessant self-congratulation, the bare-assed ignorance, the bald-faced lies.