James Arthur
James Arthur has received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship and a Discovery/ The Nation Prize. His first poetry collection, Charms Against Lightning, is forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press. His poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Ploughshares and Narrative. In 2012 he will be in residence at the Amy Clampitt House in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Reading List
In Praise of Noise
The sound begins with a furnace clicking awake in a two-room house, answered by a few, then more, voices: gauges, and old-fashioned watches ticking out of synch, in growing number, so their tip-tip-tip fattens to …