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Faculty Recognition
James Reiss wins Ohioana Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award
2005
Linda Hengst, executive director of the Ohioana Library Association, has announced the recipients of the 2005 Ohioana Awards. "These outstanding individuals represent the very best of Ohio’s literary, musical and artistic talent," she said. "We are proud to have the opportunity to honor them in this way."
James Reiss, Professor of English at Miami University, has been won the Ohioana Helen and Laura Krout Memorial Poetry Award.
James Reiss is a native New Yorker who has made a career of poetry and teaching in the Midwest. He attended the University of Chicago and after graduating, accepted a position with the English Department of Miami University in Oxford, where he established the university’s creative writing program. He also was involved in Ohio’s Poet in the Schools Program and served as editor of the Miami University Press. The author of six books of poetry, Reiss has won two Academy of American Poets first prizes, the Poetry Center Discovery Award and fellowships from Breadloaf, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts Council. His poem, “The Breathers” about the death of his newborn son, has been widely anthologized.