James Kimbrell

James Kimbrell (born 1967) is an American poet.

Life

As an undergraduate he majored in philosophy at Millsaps College, where his poetry was first published in the literary magazine Stylus.[1]

He graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with an M.A., from University of Virginia with an MFA, and from University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri with a Ph.D. He teaches at Florida State University.[2]

His work has appeared in Poetry, Field, Fence,[3] The Nation, Prairie Schooner, The Boston Book Review.

Awards

1998 Whiting Award
Ruth Lilly Fellowship
"Discovery"/The Nation Award
Ford Foundation Fellowship
Academy of American Poets Prize
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, Creative Writing-2005
2016 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, Creative Writing-2017

Works

Books

Smote. Sarabande Books. 2015. ISBN 978-1-941411-09-4.
My Psychic. Sarabande Books. 2006. ISBN 978-1-932511-25-3.
The Gatehouse Heaven. Sarabande Books. 1998. ISBN 978-1-889330-13-6.

Translations

Three Poets of Modern Korea: Yi Sang, Hahm Dong-Seon and Choi Young-Mi, a collection of translations from the Korean. Translators Jung-Yul Yu, James Kimbrell. Sarabande Books. 2002. ISBN 978-1-889330-71-6.CS1 maint: others (link)

Anthologies

Michael Collier, ed. (2000). "True Descenders". American Poetry: The Next Generation. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-964-8.

References

"Interview with James Kimbrell," Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Stylus: 2008 Stylus http://www.millsaps.edu/student_life/student_publications_stylus.php/ Archived 2015-12-08 at the Wayback Machine
"The English Department at Florida State University". www.english.fsu.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-14.
Wolff, Rebecca (2000-01-01). Fence. Fence Magazine, Incorporated. ISBN 9780966332452.

External links

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