People
Faculty
James Reiss
Titles
- Emeritus Professor of English
- Founding Editor, Miami University Press (1992–2003)
Education
- M.A., English, University of Chicago, 1964
- B.A., English, University of Chicago, 1963
Teaching Interests
- Creative writing
- Current fiction
- Poetry
Research Interests
- Writing poetry
- Fiction
- Non–fiction
Selected Publications
- Greatest Hits: 1970–2005. (Columbus, OH: Pudding House Publications, 2005), Poems.
- Riff on Six: New and Selected Poems. (Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2003), Poems.
- Ten Thousand Good Mornings. (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2001), Poems.
- The Parable of Fire. (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1996), Poems.
- Express. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983), Poems.
- The Breathers. (New York: Ecco Press/Viking, 1974), Poems.
- Self–Interviews: James Dickey. Co-ed. (Doubleday, 1970; LSU Press, 1984), Biography.
- 12 at Miami University. Ed. (Miami University, 1969).
- Poems in such places as The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Poetry, and Slate.
Web Publications
- Reviews in “Gently Read Literature”
- “My Daughters in New York,” a poem on “The Writer’s Almanac,”
September 9, 2009
- “James Reiss,” Wikipedia article
- Comments for the Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
- “Plagiarism,” featured on 11 Central Ave, a drop–in between segments of National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition”
- “Nat’s Novel,” featured on 11 Central Ave
- Poems in CounterPunch
“Pea Soup in Foggy Bottom”
“On Hearing About a Plot to Assassinate President Bush”
“Stopping by Words in Favor of Privatizing Social Security”
- Slate
“Lake Street”
“Bureau of Missing Persons”
“Slap Me Five”
“O My People” - The Atlantic Monthly
“The Piano Tuner.” Subscribers may view at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200808/poem-poian
“Squeezebox.” Subscribers may view at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200608/reiss
“My Daughters in New York.” Subscribers may view at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/reiss/daughter.htm
“Cycle.” Subscribers may view at:
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/reiss/cycle.htm - The New Yorker
“Crystal.” Subscribers may view at:
http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1973-05-12#folio=042
“Sueños.” Subscribers may view at:
http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1975-10-20#folio=040
“By the Steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” Subscribers may view at:
http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1977-05-02#folio=044
“Approaching Washington Heights.” Subscribers may view at:
http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1978-01-23#folio=034
“Passage.” Subscribers may view at:
http://archives.newyorker.com/?i=1982-07-12#folio=036 - Lily, featured on Verse Daily
- “My Daughters in New York” in Poetry 180: a Poem a Day for American High Schools, Poem 094
Additional information
Reiss’s work has been catalogued in the James Reiss Collection (1960-2008), Walter Havighurst Special Collections, Miami University Libraries, Oxford, Ohio 45056: http://spec.lib.muohio.edu/James%20Reiss%20Collection.pdf. The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, manuscript material and miscellanea. The collection omits Reiss’s fiction and most of his criticism.
He has won four consecutive annual Zeitfunk Awards, in 2007–2010, from the Public Radio Exchange (PRX) for his reviews of independent radio producers’ pieces.