Jim daniels bio
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Jim Daniels is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, four collections of fiction, and three produced screenplays. He has received the Brittingham Prize for Poetry, the Tillie Olsen Prize, the Blue Lynx Poetry Prize, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies, and his poem “Factory Love” is displayed on the roof of a racecar. At Carnegie Mellon University, he is the Thomas Stockham Baker Professor of English. A native of Detroit, Daniels lives with his family in Pittsburgh, near the boyhood homes of Andy Warhol and Dan Marino. His latest collection of poetry, Birth Marks, was released by BOA Editions this year.
Gulf Stream Poetry Editor, Marci Calabretta corresponded with Daniels via email about his new book, Birth Marks, his obsessions and rituals, and his roles as father, writer, and professor.
The Laying o • James (Jim) Daniels was born in in Detroit, Michigan. Like his father and many of his friends, Daniels worked for the Ford Motor Company and other jobs before college. He earned his bachelor's degree from Alma College in and a master's degree from Bowling Green State University in Daniels used Detroit and working in the factory as a backdrop for his first three books: Places/Everyone (), Punching Out (), and M (). In his writing, he addresses the issues of blue collar work, adolescence, and determining the role of a poet. His fourth book, Blessing the House (), breaks away from the Detroit setting and features his current residence in Pittsburgh. "Dear" is a poem in the book where an unfinished letter from is found, causing a reflection upon the adolescence of that year: In I traded majors This poem by Daniels shows the language that Tim Ross of Artful Dodge describes as "Stylistically, t • National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, , “Between Periods” included in Best American Poetry . Literary papper purchased bygd Special Collections, Michigan State University Library Pushcart Prize (Best of the Small Presses) for “Day of the Two Bodies,” Honorable mention, , “Brown’s Farm. Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in Literature, , RESPECT: The Poetry of stad Music, Michigan Notable Book, Rowing Inland, Finalist for the American Book Fest Best Book Award in Poetry, The Middle Ages, Finalist for the Julie Suk Award Best Book of Poetry Published bygd a Literary Press, The Middle Ages, finalist, Poetry, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year, Rowing Inland, finalist, the Montaigne Medal, The Eric Hoffer Book Awards, Rowing Inland, Honoree, Poetry, gemenskap of Midland Authors Annual Literary Award competition for books published in Challenges to the Dream: The Best of the Martin Luther King,
like used cars, testing them out and
then abandoning them by the road.Jim Daniels