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National Book Foundation > Author > James McMichael
James McMichael is the author of five other collections of poetry: Against the Falling Evil (1971), The Lover’s Familiar (1978), Four Good Things(1980), Each in a Place Apart (1994) and The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996(1996). Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Shelley Memorial Prize. He is the director of the Master of Fine Arts Poetry Writing Program at the University of California, Irvine. More about this author >
McMichaels’ first new poetry collection in a decade addresses one by one the things that people need to live – land, water, sky, food, shelter, thought, talk, sex, and generation. More about this book >
James McMichael is the author of five other collections of poetry: Against the Falling Evil (1971), The Lover’s Familiar (1978), Four Good Things(1980), Each in a Place Apart (1994) and The World at Large: New and Selected Poems, 1971-1996(1996). Among his awards are a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and the Shelley Memorial Prize. He is the director of the Master of Fine Arts Poetry Writing Program at the University of California, Irvine.