Jim Daniels has published or collaborated on approximately 41 books since his debut poetry collection Places/Everyone won the Brittingham Prize in 1985. The recently retired.
The Writer’s Chronicle, and
The Rumpus, where she is a senior poetry editor. She teaches at the University of Michigan’s Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy.
INTRODUCTION
Being a poet has taught me the value of practice and patience. I have learned that my next poem will reveal itself to me if I simply follow language by engaging with it through my (mostly) daily reading and writing practice and if I wait for that small, persistent thing a scrap of language, an image, a question that won’t leave me alone that opens a door in my mind. I’ve also learned that for me, at least poetry is slow. I often work on poems for several years before they’re finished. This morning, I think I finally found the right form for a poem I’ve been working on for four years. Last month, I finished a poem I started working on in 2010. My poems spend a long time resting, waiting for me to come back around and try again to get it right. I’m not a particularly patient person in other
The Georgia Poetry Circuit and Georgia Southern University s Department of Writing and Linguistics are presenting a Zoom Q&A and reading with poet David Kirby.
Kirby is the author of over two dozen books that range from poetry collections, children’s stories, criticism, and music biographies. His poetry collection The Ha Ha (2003) was nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize and The House on Boulevard Street: New and Selected Poems (2007) was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Florida Book Award.
Kirby has also won several Pushcart Prizes, the Guy Owen Prize, the Kay Deeter Award, the James Dickey Prize, the Brittingham Prize, and the Millennium Cultural Recognition Award, and his work appears regularly in poetry anthologizes including Best American Poetry. He has also received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts.