Mike James
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| Mike James | |
|---|---|
 Poet Lauret of Murfreesboro, TN | |
| Born | Chester, SC |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 👶 Children | 5 |
Mike James has published twenty collections of poetry and is the current Poet laureate of Murfreesboro, TN.[1] James' poetry does not fall into a single genre as he has published works of ghazals, free verse, sonnets, as well as prose about pop culture icons like Burt Reynolds and Marilyn Monroe.[2]
Marriage and children[edit]
James is married and has five children with his spouse and high school sweetheart, Diane. James has lived across the country including Pittsburgh, PA, Atlanta, GA and most recently Murfreesboro.[3]
Career[edit]
James began writing poetry at age 15, however, his earliest written and published poem is from his college days at Winthrop University, published in Tar River Poetry.[4]
James was an associate editor of The Kentucky Review and published Yellow Pepper Press with his wife.[5]
James' work has been featured in numerous poetry journals such as Poets & Writer's Magazine,[6]The American Poetry Review[7] and Trailer Park Quarterly.[8] His work has been referenced in other poet's work as well.[9]
Published works[edit]
Books[edit]
- Not Here (Green Bean, 2000)
- All Those Goodbyes (Talent House, 2001)
- Pennies from an Empty Jar (Another Thing, 2002)
- Alternate Endings (Foothills, 2007)
- Shotgun Exchanges (Costmary, 2010)
- Past Due Notices: Poems 1991-2011 (Main Street Rag, 2012)
- Elegy in Reverse (Aldrich Press, 2014)
- The Year We Let The House Fall Down (Aldrich Press, 2015)
- Peddler's Blues (Main Street Rag, 2016)
- My Favorite Houseguest (FutureCycle Press, 2017)[10]
- Crows in the Jukebox (Bottom Dog Press, 2017)
- First-hand Accounts From Made-up Places (Stubborn Mule Press, 2018)
- Jumping Drawbridges in Technicolor (Blue Horse, 2019)
- Parades (Alien Buddha, 2019)
- Journeyman's Suitcase (Luchador, 2020)
- Red Dirt Souvenir Shot (Analog Submissions, 2020)
- Double Feature [with John Dorsey] (Analog Submissions, 2021)
- Leftover Distances (Luchador, 2021)
- Portable Light: New & Selected Poems, 1991-2021 (Redhawk, 2022)
- Back Alley Saints at the Tikka Bar (Redhawk, 2023)
Recognition[edit]
- 2015 Waneta T. Blake Visiting Professor at the University of Maine Fort Kent
- 2023 Poet Lauret of Murfreesboro, TN
Notes[edit]
- ↑ "Laureate Program | Murfreesboro, TN - Official Website".
- ↑ ""A Review of Mike James' Jumping Drawbridges in Technicolor" by Chase Dimock". 8 April 2019.
- ↑ "Murfreesboro Cultural Arts 2023 Laureates | Murfreesboro, TN - Official Website".
- ↑ "A Review of Mike James's Elegy in Reverse". 2 July 2014.
- ↑ Targeted News Service, 2015
- ↑ Poets & Winter's Magazine, 2013
- ↑ The American Poetry Review, 2018
- ↑ "Volume 11".
- ↑ Wurster 2019, p. 40
- ↑ "Review: "My Favorite Houseguest" by Mike James". September 2017.
References[edit]
- The American Poetry Review, vol. 47, no. 5, 2018, pp. 7.
- Poets & Writers Magazine, vol. 41, no. 5, Sept.-Oct. 2013, p. 11
- "Waneta T. Blake Visiting Professor Mike James Will Present on the UMFK Campus." Targeted News Service, 2 Apr. 2015. Gale OneFile, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A407929340/GPS?u=tel_p_lpls&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=db514c6f.
- Wurster, Michael (2019). “How to Seduce a Communist Woman.” Even Then: Poems, (41). University of Pittsburgh Press.
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