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John James

John James is the author of Chthonic, winner of the 2014 CutBank Chapbook Award. His poems appear in Kenyon Review, Poetry Northwest, West Branch, Best American Poetry 2017, and elsewhere. He teaches at Trinity Washington University and the University of the District of Columbia, and directs Georgetown Summer Programs’ Creative Writing Institute.

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Poetry

what was it this
morning : you said

redgrass glistens
in surf : the pine

John James
Anne Carson’s new work, Float, is a boxed set of twenty-two chapbooks in which the poet plays with different voices.
John James

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