Poetry Reading by Jim Daniels

Jim Daniels is the author of eight books of poetry, including Show and Tell: New and Selected Poems (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). His new collections, Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry Winner Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies (Eastern Washington University Press) and In Line for the Exterminator (Wayne State University Press), come out this year. His second collection of short fiction, Detroit Tales (Michigan State University Press, 2003), received a bronze medal in the ForeWord Book of the Year awards. A new collection of short stories, Mr. Pleasant (Michigan State University Press), will be published this year. In addition to writing poetry and fiction, Jim Daniels has written and produced Dumpster, a 2006 feature film that has been selected for a dozen film festivals. He has written Oo?Heart of hearts,Oo? a one-act play produced at the 13th Street Repertory Theater in New York. He also has worked in collaboration with photographer Charlee Brodsky on a book of poems and photographs titled Street (Bottom Dog Press, 2005). HeOo?s been an editor of a number of anthologies, including Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race (Wayne State University Press, 1995). His many awards include the Brittingham Prize for Poetry, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Poetry anthologies. He is the Baker Professor of English and Director of the Creative Writing Program at Carnegie Mellon University.

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