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James Harms
Professor M.F.A. 1988 Indiana Office: 235 Colson Hall Tel: 293-9720 Fax: 293-5380 Email: jharms@wvu.edu |
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Specializations:
Creative Writing (Poetry)
Contemporary Poetry
James Harms is the author of five full-length collections of poetry from Carnegie Mellon University Press, Freeways and Aqueducts (2004), Quarters (2001), The Joy Addict (1998), Modern Ocean (1992), and the forthcoming After West (2007), as well as a letter press, limited edition volume, East of Avalon (2000) from Caddis Case Press. His poems, essays and short stories have appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Antioch Review, Denver Quarterly, The Gettysburg Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, Verse, The North American Review, Oxford American and many other literary journals; in addition, he is a contributing editor of West Branch. He has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the PEN/Revson Foundation Fellowship, grants from the West Virginia and Pennsylvania Art Commissions, and residencies from the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo. Since arriving at West Virginia University he has been named a Benedum Distinguished Scholar, The Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher, The Eberly College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Researcher (twice), and The Carnegie Foundation/CASE United States Teacher of the Year for West Virginia. His poetry concerns itself with the inexact representation of landscape within the context of a fluid and never-fixed moment in time . . . in other words, with the slippage of temporal and spatial content. The intent is to renew the notion of content without capitulating to its will . . . sort of.