Jim daniels bio
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James (Jim) Daniels was born in in Detroit, Michigan. Like his father and many of his friends, Daniels worked for the Ford Motor Company and other jobs before college. He earned his bachelor's degree from Alma College in and a master's degree from Bowling Green State University in
Daniels used Detroit and working in the factory as a backdrop for his first three books: Places/Everyone (), Punching Out (), and M (). In his writing, he addresses the issues of blue collar work, adolescence, and determining the role of a poet.
His fourth book, Blessing the House (), breaks away from the Detroit setting and features his current residence in Pittsburgh. "Dear" is a poem in the book where an unfinished letter from is found, causing a reflection upon the adolescence of that year:
In I traded majors
like used cars, testing them out and
then abandoning them by the road.
This poem by Daniels shows the language that Tim Ross of Artful Dodge describes as "Stylistically, throughout his career he has always found a way to combine a straightforward, conversational tone with a sharp sense of rhythm and tightly compressed language." This tone can also be seen in his poem "Factory Cool," published in Punching Out (). In the poem, an inexperienced factory worker named Di
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Gulf Stream Metrical composition Editor, Marci Calabretta corresponded with Daniels via telecommunicate about his new finished, Birth Marks, his obsessions and rituals, and his roles introduce father, scribe, and professor.
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Jim Daniels
National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships, ,
“Between Periods” included in Best American Poetry .
Literary papers purchased by Special Collections, Michigan State University Library
Pushcart Prize (Best of the Small Presses) for “Day of the Two Bodies,”
Honorable mention, , “Brown’s Farm.
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships in Literature, ,
RESPECT: The Poetry of Detroit Music, Michigan Notable Book,
Rowing Inland, Finalist for the American Book Fest Best Book Award in Poetry,
The Middle Ages, Finalist for the Julie Suk Award Best Book of Poetry Published by a Literary Press,
The Middle Ages, finalist, Poetry, Foreword INDIES Book of the Year,
Rowing Inland, finalist, the Montaigne Medal, The Eric Hoffer Book Awards,
Rowing Inland, Honoree, Poetry, Society of Midland Authors Annual Literary Award competition for books published in
Challenges to the Dream: The Best of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Writing Awards at Carnegie Mellon University, Honorable Mention, Best Anthology, Foreword’s INDIES Book of the Year,
Street Calligraphy, finalist, Best Poetry, Foreword’s INDIES Book of the Year,
Rowing Inland, Finalist, Paterson Poetry Prize,
Rowing Inland, Michigan Notabl