Jim Daniels


James Raymond Daniels is an American poet and writer.
He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, the writer Kristin Kovacic.

Life and work

Daniels was on the faculty of the creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1981 to 2021, where he was the Thomas Stockham Baker University Professor of English. He taught in the Antioch University-Los Angeles low-residency MFA Program from 2007 to 2021. He currently teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA Program.
The majority of Daniels' papers are held in Michigan State University Libraries .
Daniels' literary works have been recognized and highlighted at Michigan State University in their Michigan Writers Series. He won the inaugural Brittingham Prize in Poetry in 1985 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He was educated at Alma College and Bowling Green State University.

Works

Poetry

Factory Poems On the Line Places/Everyone The Long Ball Digger's Territory Punching Out Hacking It M-80 Niagara Falls Blessing the House Brooding the Heartlands Blue Jesus Black Vinyl, Red Vinyl Greatest Hits Night with Drive-by Shooting Stars Digger's Blues, Show and Tell: New and Selected Poems Street Now Showing Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies In Line for the Exterminator
  • From Milltown to Malltown Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry
  • All of the Above.
  • Birth Marks.
  • Apology to the Moon,
  • Rowing Inland,
  • Street Calligraphy
  • The Middle Ages
  • Gun/Shy
  • The Human Engine at Dawn
  • Comment Card
  • Ars Poetica Chemistrica
  • ''Late Invocation for Magic''

Fiction

No Pets, stories Detroit Tales, stories Mr. Pleasant, stories

Nonfiction

An Ignorance of Trees, essays

Screenplays

No Pets, screenplay Dumpster, screenplay
  • Mr. Pleasant, screenplay
  • The End of Blessings, screenplay

Anthologies

The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry, poetry anthology Letters to America: Contemporary Poetry on Race, poetry anthology American Poetry: The Next Generation, poetry anthology