Jim Daniels
Jim Daniels’s recent poetry books include Rowing Inland (Wayne State University Press, 2017), Street Calligraphy (Steel Toe Books, 2017), and The Middle Ages (Red Mountain Press, 2018). His book of short fiction, The Perp Walk, was published by Michigan State University Press in 2019. He coedited RESPECT: The Poetry of the Music of Detroit, an anthology of poetry and lyrics forthcoming from MSU Press in Fall 2019. He is the Thomas S. Baker University Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.
Reading List
Self Exam in Morning-After Rain
We are guilty of thinking about ourselves too much. If by we, I mean me, if by too much, I mean all the time. If by guilty, I mean human. Rain today, thin mist above the apartments across the street that mar my view of the park, the unruly green hair of trees reaching above […]
Calculating the Squandered Years
Don’t look back, they say, but every body does. The neck evolved to revolve— halfway at least. Breaking up was so awful the first time, we did it again. They danced on my grave before I was even finished digging it so technically I did not arise from the dead. Frayed rope can surprise you. […]