James Pollock

Poet

Madison, WI
Wisconsin US
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Author's Bio

James Pollock is the author of Sailing to Babylon (Able Muse Press, 2012), a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award in Poetry, and winner of an Outstanding Achievement Award in Poetry from the Wisconsin Library Association; and You Are Here: Essays on the Art of Poetry in Canada (The Porcupine's Quill, 2012), a finalist for the ForeWord Reviews Book of the Year Award for a collection of essays. He is also editor of The Essential Daryl Hine (The Porcupine's Quill), which made Partisan magazine's list of the best books of 2015. A new book of his poems, Durable Goods, was published by Véhicule Press/Signal Editions in 2022. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, AGNI, Plume, The Walrus, and many other journals. They have also won the Manchester Poetry Prize, the Magma Editors' Prize, and the Guy Owen Prize from Southern Poetry Review, and have been reprinted in anthologies in Canada, the U.S., and the U.K., including The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry. His essays have appeared in Contemporary Poetry Review, Canadian Notes & Queries, Literary Review of Canada, and elsewhere. He graduated from York University in Toronto, earned a Ph.D. in Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and is now Professor of English at Loras College. He lives with his wife and son in Madison, Wisconsin.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Earth and Heaven: An Anthology of Myth Poetry (Fitzhenry & Whiteside, 2015)
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Heart of the Order: Baseball Poems (Persea, 2014)
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The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology 2013 (House of Anansi Press, 2013)
Books:
Durable Goods (Vehicule Press, 2022)
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Sailing to Babylon (Able Muse Press, 2012)
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Canadian Literature
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Contemporary Verse 2
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Dalhousie Review
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Magma Poetry
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Maisonneuve Magazine
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Paris Review
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Poetry Daily
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Riddle Fence
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Texas Review
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The Walrus
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Western Humanities Review
Prizes won: 

Finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award in Poetry; Winner of the Manchester Poetry Prize, the Magma Editors' Prize, the Guy Owen Prize from Southern Poetry Review, and an Outstanding Achievement Award in Poetry from the Wisconsin Library Association; awarded a Work-Study Scholarship in poetry at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a John Woods Scholarship in poetry at the Prague Summer Program at Charles University, an Inprint Dissertation Fellowship, a Stella Ehrhart Memorial Fellowship, a C. Glenn Cambor/ Inprint Fellowship, and a Cullen Educational Trust Graduate Fellowship

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Canadian
Born in: 
Sudbury, ON
Canada
Ontario
Raised in: 
Woodstock, ON
Canada
Ontario
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Last update: Oct 23, 2022