# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kenneth-koch
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:17:37.417Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kenneth-koch"
name: "Kenneth Koch"
slug: "kenneth-koch"
description: "Kenneth Koch was an American poet, playwright, and professor, active from the 1950s until his death at age 77.) He was a prominent poet of the New York School of poetry. This was a loose group of poets including Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery that eschewed contemporary introspective poetry in favor of an exuberant, cosmopolitan style that drew major inspiration from travel, painting, and music. Comical, narrative, punning and exuberant are adjectives that have been associated with his work."
tagline: "American poet, playwright, and professor (1925–2002)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/1b/Kenneth_Koch.jpeg/330px-Kenneth_Koch.jpeg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-02-27"
deathDate: "2002-07-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.62
  momentum:             2.790697674418605
  historical:           12.037224
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "كينيث كوش"
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    title: "كينيث كوش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kenneth Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Koch"
    title: "Kenneth Koch"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Koch"
    title: "Kenneth Koch"
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  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A7%D7%A0%D7%AA'_%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%9A"
    title: "קנת' קוך"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Koch"
    title: "Kenneth Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennethus_Koch"
    title: "Kennethus Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Koch"
    title: "Kenneth Koch"
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  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Koch"
    title: "Kenneth Koch"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%85%2C_%D0%9A%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%82"
    title: "Кох, Кеннет"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Kenneth Koch"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Koch"
    title: "Kenneth Koch"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump