People
Faculty
James Reiss
Titles
- Emeritus Professor of English
- Former Editor, Miami University Press (1992–2003)
Education
- M.A., English, University of Chicago, 1964
- B.A., English, University of Chicago
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:”
http://en.wordpress.com/tag/james-reiss/ - “My Daughters in New York,” a poem on “The Writer’s Almanac,”
September 9, 2009:
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php? date=2009/09/09 - “James Reiss,” Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reiss - Comments for the Public Radio Exchange (PRX):
http://www.prx.org/users/33518-jamesreiss/comments - “Plagiarism,” featured on 11 Central Ave, a drop–in between segments of National Public Radio’s “Morning Edition:”
http://cdn2.libsyn.com/susan/11CApgm82plagiarism.mp3 - “Nat’s Novel,” featured on 11 Central Ave:
http://cdn.libsyn.com/susan/11CApgm57b-PRXaudition.mp3 - Poems in CounterPunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/poems08142009.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/poems04072007.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/poems05032003.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/reiss01202005.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/reiss02242005.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/reiss03092005.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/poems08132005.html - Slate
http://www.slate.com/id/75142/
http://www.slate.com/id/2164574/fr/rss/
http://www.slate.com/?id=2060490
http://www.slate.com/?id=2062531 - 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 - Verse Daily
http://www.versedaily.org/lilyjr.shtml - Buffalo Report
http://buffaloreport.com/2004/040301.reiss.texmex.html - Poetry 180: a Poem a Day for American High Schools, Poem 094
http://www.loc.gov/poetry/180/094.html
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 was awarded the Public Radio Exchange’s Zeitfunk Award for Reviewing in 2007 and 2008.