James Kimbrell (born 1967) is an American poet.

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, and Prairie Schooner.

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, Creative Writing-2005
  • 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow
  • National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, Creative Writing-2017

Works

Books

  • Smote. Sarabande Books. 2015. ISBN 978-1-941411-09-4.
  • My Psychic. Sarabande Books. 2006. ISBN 978-1-932511-25-3.
  • . Sarabande Books. 1998. ISBN 978-1-889330-13-6.

Translations

  • . Translated by Jung-Yul Yu; James Kimbrell. Sarabande Books. 2002. ISBN 978-1-889330-71-6.

Anthologies

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

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