About
“All a poet can do today is warn.”
- Wilfred Owen, Poems
Richard Fox seeks three-decker rainbows, fluent scout dogs, and illuminating espresso. When not writing about rock ’n roll or youthful transgressions, his poems focus on cancer from the patient’s point of view drawing on hope, humor, and unforeseen gifts.
He is the author of seven poetry collections: TIME BOMB (2013), wandering in puzzle boxes (2015), You’re my favorite horse (2017), embracing the burlesque of collateral damage (2020), Let sleep bless our arrival (2022), Once I was born to live (2022), DOUBLE CHAI: Poems for My Zady & Miscellany (2023)plus a chapbook: The Complete Uncle Louie Poems (2017).
The new collection, DOUBLE CHAI: Poems for My Zady & Miscellany, chronicles His grandfather’s life in “The New Country.” By relating these tales, the author tells his own story. Included in the collection are poems about heroes, and living with cancer.
The winner of the 2017 Frank O’Hara Prize, Richard seconds Stanley Kunitz' motion that people in Worcester are "provoked to poetry.”