James McCorkle is the author of three collections of poetry: Evidences (American Poetry Review–Honickman First Book Prize, 2004), The Subtle Bodies (Etruscan Press, 2014), and In Time (Etruscan Press, 2020). He lives in Western New York and codirects the Africana Studies Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Extinction
Summer 2024
Cavalcade
At the end it is as if we slip off one robe | only then | to slip on another offers | a commentator trees bare themselves | at least […]
Nature's Nature: A Gathering of Poetry
May/June 2015
The Water Column
1 Snake Mackerel From the bathyal snake mackerel surface— diel vertical migration from one darkness to another, eyes round as the moon, or rounder —cutlass fish feeding on clouds of […]
Poetry
Winter 2001
Reading Bashō to My Daughter
1. There are characters she says She'll remember forever: the one for horse, for world, The one for fire that looks as if it bursts Into flame. But she'd […]
Poetry
Winter 2001
What Is Wanted
Little news could be added except to note that the steady decline had accelerated, discussions were failing: driving from one section of the city to another where the bombing had […]
Book Reviews
Summer/ Autumn 1997
Donald Justice: The Artist Orpheus
New and Selected Poems by Donald Justice. New York: Knopf, 1995. 176 pages. $25.00. Donald Justice’s New and Selected Poems looks back and collects the past. The poems, new […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1992
Contemporary Poetics and History: Pinsky, Klepfisz, and Rothenberg
The Want Bone by Robert Pinsky. New York: Ecco Press, 1990. 80 pages. $19.95; $9.95, paper. A Few Words in the Mother Tongue: Poems Selected and New (1971-1990) by Irena […]