Ed Skoog (born 1971, in Topeka, Kansas) is an American poet. Skoog graduated from Kansas State University, and from the University of Montana, with an MFA. He worked at the New Orleans Museum of Art and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts. [1] . He taught at Tulane University, and the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.

Ed Skoog was born in Topeka, Kansas. He earned an MFA from the University of Montana. His collections of poetry include the chapbooks Toolkit (1995) and Field Recording (2003), and the full-length volumes Mister Skylight (2009), Rough Day (2013) and Travelers Leaving for …

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Jan 30, 2022 · Ed Skoog is the author of Mister Skylight, Rough Day (Winner of the 2014 Washington Book Award), and the forthcoming Run the Red Lights, all from Copper Canyon Press. He is the poetry editor of Okey-Panky and co-hosts the Lunch Box Podcast with novelist J. Robert Lennon.

Ed Skoog‘s first collection of poems, Mister Skylight, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2009. His poems have appeared in Paris Review , American Poetry Review , Ploughshares , Threepenny Review , and Poetry .

Ed Skoog is the author of four books of poems, most recently Travelers Leaving for the City (Copper Canyon Press 2020).

Over the course of the next few weeks, as the Winter/Spring 2010-11 issue of Poetry Northwest (v5.n2) is made ready, we’ll be featuring a series of poems by Ed Skoog written in response to photographs by J. Robert Lennon.