James Kimbrell

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Name James Kimbrell Role Poet		Awards Whiting Awards

Education University of Southern Mississippi, University of Virginia Books Smote: Poems, My Psychic: Poems, The gatehouse heaven

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James Kimbrell (born 1967) is an American poet.

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Life

As an undergraduate he majored in philosophy at Millsaps College, where his poetry was first published in the literary magazine Stylus.

He graduated from the University of Southern Mississippi with an M.A., from University of Virginia with an MFA, and from University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri with a Ph.D. He teaches at Florida State University.

His work has appeared in Poetry, Field, Fence, The Nation, Prairie Schooner, The Boston Book Review.

Awards

1998 Whiting Award

Ruth Lilly Fellowship

"Discovery"/The Nation Award

Ford Foundation Fellowship

Academy of American Poets Prize

National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship

2016 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow

Books

Smote. Sarabande Books. 2015. ISBN 978-1-941411-09-4.

My Psychic. Sarabande Books. 2006. ISBN 978-1-932511-25-3.

The Gatehouse Heaven. Sarabande Books. 1998. ISBN 978-1-889330-13-6.

Empty house. University of Virginia. 1994.

Land and weather. University of Southern Mississippi. 1992.

Translations

Three Poets of Modern Korea: Yi Sang, Hahm Dong-Seon and Choi Young-Mi, a collection of translations from the Korean. Translators Jung-Yul Yu, James Kimbrell. Sarabande Books. 2002. ISBN 978-1-889330-71-6.

Anthologies

Michael Collier, ed. (2000). "True Descenders". American Poetry: The Next Generation. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-964-8.

References

James Kimbrell Wikipedia

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