- Jim Daniels
James Raymond Daniels (b. 1956 in Warren,
Michigan ) is an Americanpoet andwriter . He is best known as a major figure in working-class poetry in the United States.Since 1981, Daniels has been on the faculty of the creative writing program at
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania , where he is the Thomas Stockham Baker Professor of English.He won the inaugural
Brittingham Prize in Poetry in 1985 from theUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison . He was educated atAlma College andBowling Green State University .He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, the poet
Kristin Kovacic , and their children.The majority of Daniels' papers can be found within the Special Collections department of Michigan State University's main library, and are currently being processed.
Works
* "Factory Poems", poetry (Alma: Jack-in-the-Box Press, 1979)
* "On the Line", poetry (Menomonee Falls: Signpost Press, 1981)
* "Places/Everyone", poetry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985)
* "The Long Ball", poetry (Pittsburgh: Pig-in-a-Poke Press, 1988)
* "Digger's Territory", poetry (Easthampton: Adastra Press, 1989)
* "Punching Out", poetry (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990)
* "Hacking It", poetry (St. Clair Shores: Ridgeway Press, 1992)
* "M-80", poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993)
* "The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry", (co-editor), a poetry anthology (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1993)
* "Niagara Falls", poetry (Easthampton: Adastra Press, 1994)
* "No Pets", screenplay (Braddock: Braddock Films, 1994)
* "Letters to America: Contemporary Poetry on Race", (editor), a poetry anthology (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995)
* "Blessing the House", poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993)
* "Brooding the Heartlands", poetry (Huron: Bottom Dog Press, 1998)
* "No Pets", stories (Huron: Bottom Dog Press, 1999)
* "Blue Jesus", poetry (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000)
* "American Poetry: The Next Generation", (co-editor), a poetry anthology (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000)
* "Black Vinyl, Red Vinyl", poetry (Toledo: Aureole Press, 2001)
* "Greatest Hits", poems (Johnstown: Pudding House Press, 2002)
* "Night with Drive-by Shooting Stars", poems (Kalamazoo: New Issues Press, 2002)
* "Digger's Blues", poetry (Easthampton: Adastra Press, 2002)
* "Detroit Tales", stories (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003)
* "Show and Tell: New and Selected Poems", poetry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)
* "Street", poems (Huron: Bottom Dog Press, 2005)
* "Dumpster", screenplay (Pittsburgh: Three Rivers Film Festival, 2005)
* "Now Showing", poetry (Burlington, Ontario: Aladada Books, 2006)
* "Revolt of the Crash-Test Dummies", poetry (Cheney: Eastern Washington University Press, 2007)
* "Mr. Pleasant", stories (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2007)
* "In Line for the Exterminator", poetry (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2007)ources
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