Jim Powell (poet)

Jim Powell (poet)

Jim Powell is an American poet from the San Francisco Bay Area. [ [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/3161.ctl Powell, Jim: It Was Fever That Made The World ] ] [ [http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/common_knowledge/v013/13.1powell.html Project MUSE ] ]

Career

Powell is a 1993 "MacArthur Fellow (Poetry)", a scholar, and the author of books of lyric poetry and translation from classical Greek and Latin, including: "It Was Fever That Made the World", "Sappho: A Garland", and "Catullan Revenants". His poems, translations and literary criticism have appeared widely in literary journals and periodicals in the United States and Great Britain, including "Slate, Threepenny Review, Paris Review, Poetry, P.N. Review, Conjunctions".

His works

* "It Was Fever That Made the World," (1989)
* "Sappho: A Garland" (1993)
* "Catullan Revenants" (2000)

References

External links

* [http://mindonline.uchicago.edu/item.php?id=48 Poetry Reading by Jim Powell Chicago]

* [http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ClassicalStudies/ClassicalLiteratureinTranslation/~~/dmlldz11c2EmY2k9OTc4MDE5NTMyNjcyNw= The Poetry of Sappho]

* [http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/458978 Poetry Reading by Jim Powell Episode]

* [http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/60th/57powellindex.shtml "Poetry and Politics" issue in "Chicago Review"]


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