James Harms

James Harms is the author of eight books of poetry including, most recently, What to Borrow, What to Steal (Marick Press, 2011) and Comet Scar (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2012). He teaches in the MFA Program at West Virginia University.
Reading List
The New Moon Economy
We’ve all been in towns that wouldn’t have us, whose woods beyond the cemetery hide houses made of leaves, their windows lit low by peat fires, the slow stink of heat rising through trees then sinking into grass, the mounds …