John James (American poet) explained
John James |
Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Occupation: | Poet, critic, digital collagist |
Organization: | University of California, Berkeley |
Notable Works: | The Milk Hours, Chthonic |
Alma Mater: | Columbia University School of the Arts, Georgetown University |
John Patrick James is an American poet, critic, and digital collagist. He is the author of The Milk Hours, selected by Henri Cole for the 2018 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize and forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. He is also the author of Chthonic, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Competition. His poems appear in Boston Review, Kenyon Review, Gulf Coast, Poetry Northwest, Best New Poets 2013 and 2016, Best American Poetry 2017, and other publications.[1]
Biography
James was born in Los Angeles, California and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He earned an M.F.A. in creative writing (poetry) from Columbia University's School of the Arts and an M.A. in English literature at Georgetown University, where he served as graduate associate to the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice. James has taught at the University of the District of Columbia, The Potomac School, and Georgetown University, where he directs the Creative Writing Institute.[2] [3] He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he is a Ph.D. student in English literature at the University of California, Berkeley.[1]
His book reviews have been published in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review Online, and The Iowa Review. His collages are published in Quarterly West.[4]
Of The Milk Hours, prize judge Henri Cole writes, "“The poetry of the earth is intensely alive in the poems of John James... Out of the sorrowful fragments of personal history, [he] has a created a book of unusual intelligence and beauty.”[5]
Bibliography
- Extincton Song, North Adams, Massachusetts : Tupelo Press, 2026. (Forthcoming.)[6]
- Winter, Glossolalia, London, United Kingdom : Black Spring Press Group, 2022., [7]
- The Milk Hours, Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2019., [1]
- Chthonic, CutBank Books, 2015., [8]
Poems
Scholarship and criticism
- "Soot Moth: Biston Betularia and the Victorian End of Nature," co-authored with Nathan K. Hensley, at BRANCH: Britain, Representation, and Nineteenth Century History[17]
- "Blake in/of Time: Presentism and Literary Form" at V21: Victorian Studies for the 21st Century[18]
- "Astralize the Night," review of Anne Carson's Float at Boston Review[19]
- "On Canine Dasein," review of Frank Bidart's Metaphysical Dog, at Boston Review[20]
- "Learn Your Lesson / From the Calf: Rebecca Gayle Howell's Render/An Apocalypse at Kenyon Review Online[21]
- Review of Illocality by Joseph Massey at Colorado Review[22]
Notes and References
- Web site: John James. 5 November 2018. Milkweed Editions.
- Web site: John James - Faculty - Georgetown SCS. scs.georgetown.edu.
- Web site: John James. Boston. Review. 20 November 2013. Boston Review.
- Web site: Four Collages. Quarterly West.
- Web site: John James Wins the 2nd Annual Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. 5 November 2018. Milkweed Editions.
- Web site: TUPELO PRESS ANNOUNCES THE RESULTS OF THE 2024 SNOWBOUND CHAPBOOK PRIZE . 2024-06-14 . 2024-09-12.
- Web site: Winter, Glossolalia . blackspringpressgroup.com . 2024-09-12.
- Web site: CUTBANK INTERVIEWS: John James, 2014 Chapbook Contest Winner. CutBank Literary Magazine.
- Web site: Colleen M. Brown Memorial Prize in Poetry, 2017. nparedes. 23 June 2017. Colleen M. Brown Memorial Prize in Poetry, 2017.
- Web site: "History (n.)" by John James - Kenyon Review Poetics of Science. The Kenyon Review.
- Web site: Metamorphoses. John. James. 7 March 2018. Boston Review.
- Web site: "At Assateague" - The Missouri Review. www.missourireview.com.
- Web site: Spaghetti Western - Poetry Database - Split This Rock. www.splitthisrock.org.
- Web site: Forget the Song by John James.
- Web site: Famous Tombs - Center for Literary Publishing. coloradoreview.colostate.edu.
- Web site: DIAGRAM :: Pocket Index. thediagram.com.
- Web site: Nathan K. Hensley and John Patrick James, "Soot Moth: Biston Betularia and the Victorian End of Nature" - BRANCH. grad.
- Web site: John Patrick James: Blake in/of Time: Presentism and Literary Form.
- Web site: Astralize the Night. John. James. 16 May 2017. Boston Review.
- Web site: On Canine Dasein: Frank Bidart's Metaphysical Dog. John. James. 20 November 2013. Boston Review.
- Web site: On Rebecca Gayle Howell - Kenyon Review Online. The Kenyon Review.
- Web site: Illocality - Center for Literary Publishing. coloradoreview.colostate.edu.