John James (American poet)

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John James
Born (1987-05-26) May 26, 1987 (age 37)
Long Beach, California, U.S.
Alma mater Columbia University School of the Arts, Georgetown University, Bellarmine University
Occupation(s)Poet, critic, digital collagist
Organization(s)University of California, Berkeley
Notable workThe Milk Hours,Chthonic

John Patrick James (born May 26, 1987) 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]

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Biography

James was born in Long Beach, California and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated summa cum laude from Bellarmine University with a B.A. in English and a minor in history. [2] He later 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 Bellarmine University, the University of the District of Columbia, The Potomac School, and Georgetown University, where he directs the Creative Writing Institute. [3] [4] [2] 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 . [5]

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.” [6]

On July 15, 2024, James was placed on unpaid leave by Bellarmine University for making social media posts supportive of the assassination attempt against Donald Trump. [7]

Bibliography

Poems

Scholarship and criticism

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  2. 1 2 "John James". Bellarmine University. Archived from the original on 2019-02-17. Retrieved 2018-12-27.
  3. ↑ "John James - Faculty - Georgetown SCS". scs.georgetown.edu.
  4. ↑ Review, Boston (20 November 2013). "John James". Boston Review.
  5. ↑ "Four Collages". Quarterly West.
  6. ↑ "John James Wins the 2nd Annual Max Ritvo Poetry Prize". Milkweed Editions. 5 November 2018.
  7. ↑ https://x.com/bellarmineU/status/1812962873506676981/photo/1
  8. ↑ "CUTBANK INTERVIEWS: John James, 2014 Chapbook Contest Winner". CutBank Literary Magazine.
  9. ↑ nparedes (23 June 2017). "Colleen M. Brown Memorial Prize in Poetry, 2017". Colleen M. Brown Memorial Prize in Poetry, 2017.
  10. ↑ ""History (n.)" by John James - Kenyon Review Poetics of Science". The Kenyon Review.
  11. ↑ James, John (7 March 2018). "Metamorphoses". Boston Review.
  12. ↑ ""At Assateague" - The Missouri Review". www.missourireview.com.
  13. ↑ "Spaghetti Western - Poetry Database - Split This Rock". www.splitthisrock.org.
  14. ↑ "Forget the Song by John James".
  15. ↑ "Famous Tombs - Center for Literary Publishing". coloradoreview.colostate.edu.
  16. ↑ "DIAGRAM :: Pocket Index". thediagram.com.
  17. ↑ grad. "Nathan K. Hensley and John Patrick James, "Soot Moth: Biston Betularia and the Victorian End of Nature" - BRANCH".
  18. ↑ "John Patrick James: Blake in/of Time: Presentism and Literary Form".
  19. ↑ James, John (16 May 2017). "Astralize the Night". Boston Review.
  20. ↑ James, John (20 November 2013). "On Canine Dasein: Frank Bidart's Metaphysical Dog". Boston Review.
  21. ↑ "On Rebecca Gayle Howell - Kenyon Review Online". The Kenyon Review.
  22. ↑ "Illocality - Center for Literary Publishing". coloradoreview.colostate.edu.
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