Temple Cone is an associate professor of English at the United States Naval Academy. His first book of poems, No Loneliness, received the first annual Future Cycle Poetry Book Award in 2009.

Cone is the author of five chapbooks of poetry: Eurydice & Orpheus (Finishing Line Press, 2008), Radiolaria (Pudding House, 2007), Quandary Farm (Pudding House, 2007), A Father’s Story (Pudding House, 2007), and Considerations of Earth and Sky (Parallel Press, 2005). He has also published two critical reference books: Bloom’s Classic Critical Views: Walt Whitman (co-edited with Harold Bloom) and The Facts on File Companion to 20th-Century American Poetry (co-edited with Burt Kimmelman), as well as scholarly articles on Robinson Jeffers, Ciaran Carson, Les Murray, and Denise Levertov.

Awards for his work include two Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prizes in 2007 and 2008, the Christian Publishers Poetry Prize in 2008, a Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) Individual Artist Award in Poetry in 2007, and the John Lehman Award in Poetry from the Wisconsin Academy Review

Cone holds a PhD in English from the University of Wisconsin, an MFA in creative writing from the University of Virginia, an MA in creative writing from Hollins University, and a BA in philosophy from Washington and Lee University. He lives in Annapolis with his wife and daughter.

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Poems by Temple Cone. No Loneliness is the winner of the 2009 FutureCycle Press Poetry Prize.