James Reiss
Profile
James Reiss has an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a CHK (College of Hard Knocks) degree from the streets of New York City.
He is the author of Greatest Hits: 1970-2005. (Columbus, OH: Pudding House Publications, 2005); Riff on Six: New and Selected Poems (Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2003); Ten Thousand Good Mornings (Carnegie Mellon, 2001); The Parable of Fire (Carnegie Mellon, 1996); Express (Pittsburgh, 1983); and The Breathers (Ecco, 1974). Editor of Self-Interviews: James Dickey (Doubleday, 1970; Delta, 1972; LSU Press, 1984); 12 at Miami University (Miami University, 1969).
His poems, fiction, and criticism have appeared in such places as The American Book Review, The Antioch Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Beloit Poetry Journal, BIGnews, Boulevard, Chicago Tribune Magazine, Cleveland Plain Dealer, College English, Columbia, Esquire, The Hudson Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, The Literary Review, Meridian, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, Missouri Review, Modern Philology, The Nation, New Letters, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Nimrod, Ontario Review, The Paris Review, Parnassus, Pequod, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Seneca Review, Shenandoah, Slate, Southwest Review, Verse, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Western Humanities Review. His work has been widely reprinted in anthologies, textbooks, and on the Internet, as well as having been broadcast on such radio stations as WBAI (New York), WCLV (Cleveland), WGBR (Boston), and WNYC (New York). His poem, "The Breathers," had its off-off Broadway premiere as a one-act play performed at the Henry Street Settlement House in New York.
Reiss has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Breadloaf Writers Conference, the Creative Artists Public Service of the New York State Council on the Arts; and awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Big Apple Foundation, the College English Association of Ohio, the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York, the Poetry Society of America, and the Pushcart Press.