LUNCH WITH BOOKS: Wheeling Poetry Series Presents James Harms

October 03, 2017
12:00pm - 12:00pm

James Harms, founding director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing and Professor of English at WVU, is the author of the poetry collections Rowing with Wings, Comet Scar, After West, Freeways and Aqueducts, Quarters, The Joy Addict and Modern Ocean, and What to Borrow, What to Steal, a limited fine press edition, East of Avalon, and several poetry chapbooks. He has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, three Pushcart Prizes, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and fellowships from the WV and PA Arts Commissions, as well as residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. His work has appeared in Poetry, The American Poetry Review, Oxford American, and many other journals. He was the founding director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at West Virginia University, where he is currently a Professor of English. 

Launched in September 2015, the “Wheeling Poetry Series” features readings by some of the finest poets from our Appalachian region and beyond. The Wheeling Poetry Series is hosted by West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman.

Lunch With Books programs are free and open to the public. Attendees are welcome to bring a bag lunch and complimentary beverages are provided. Call the library at 304-232-0244.