Jim Simmerman
Jim Simmerman was an American poet and editor.
Biography
Simmerman was born in Boulder, Colorado, in 1952. He received his MFA in Poetry from University of Iowa in 1980. He was Regents Professor of English at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he led poetry writing workshops and served as an advisor to the literary journal Thin Air. He took his own life on June 29, 2006, in Flagstaff, Arizona after a long illness.His poems have appeared widely in journals, anthologies, and textbooks ; and his poetry writing exercise "Twenty Little Poetry Projects" generated the anthology Mischief, Caprice, & Other Poetic Strategies, edited by Terry Wolverton.
He is also co-editor, with Joseph Duemer, of Dog Music: Poetry about Dogs.