The Poetry of James McCorkle
Winner: 1999 Campbell Corner Poetry Contest

New Sonnets

Relic

The Instance of Water

Reading Basho to My Daughter

What is Wanted



James McCorkle was born and grew up in St. Petersburg, Florida and received his B.A. from Hobart College, the M.F.A. from the Iowa Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa, and the Ph.D. in English from the University of Iowa. The recipient of fellowships from the Ingram Merrill Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts in poetry, his poetry and essays have been widely published, including work in, or forthcoming from, Boulevard, Colorado Review, Green Mountains Review, Kenyon Review, Manoa, New England Review, Partisan Review, Poetry, Postmodern Culture, Southwest Review, and Verse. His poetry has also been included in several editions of Best American Poetry. He is also the author of a study of recent American poetry, The Still Performance: Writing, Self, and Interconnection (Virginia UP, 1989) and the editor of Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry (Wayne State UP, 1990). He has taught at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Keuka College, New York University, and Pratt Institute. He currently lives in Geneva, New York with his wife Cynthia Williams, a choreographer and professor of dance at Hobart and Willaim Smith, and his daughters Katharine and Ara.