John James is the author of Chthonic, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Award. His work appears or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Tupelo Quarterly, Best New Poets 2013, and elsewhere. He lives in Washington, DC, where he serves as Graduate Associate to the Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University.
Poetry
Sept/Oct 2016
History (n.)
I didn’t make these verses because I wanted to rival that fellow, or his poems, in artistry—I knew that wouldn’t be easy—but to test what certain dreams of mine might […]
Fall 2015
“Our Sky, Bereft”: Ansel Elkins’s Blue Yodel
Reading Ansel Elkins’s Blue Yodel—Carl Phillips’s fourth selection for the Yale Series of Younger Poets—it’s hard not to think of Carson McCullers, Flannery O’Connor, William Faulkner, and Southern Gothic more generally.
Winter 2015
“Learn your lesson/from the calf”: Rebecca Gayle Howell’s Render / An Apocalypse
A brief glance at the back cover of Rebecca Gayle Howell’s Render / An Apocalypse offers a significant, if unusual definition of the book’s title: “apocalypse” is a “literary genre informed by hallucination, grief, and a long view of history (primary concerns: the past, the present, and consequence).”
Spring 2013
Domestic Threat: Lucia Perillo’s On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths
Lucia Perillo’s most recent collection of poems, On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths, builds on the eclectic assortment of characters and observations from 2009’s Inseminating the Elephant.
John James
John James is the author of Chthonic, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Award. His work appears or is forthcoming in Boston Review, Colorado Review, Gulf Coast, Massachusetts Review, Best […]