James Arthur's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Poetry, The American Poetry Review, and The New Republic. He has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship, a Discovery/The Nation Prize, and a residency at the Amy Clampitt House. His first book, Charms Against Lightning, was published in 2012 by Copper Canyon Press as a Lannan Literary Selection. He lives in Baltimore with his wife and son, and teaches at Johns Hopkins Univeristy.
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
James Arthur
Discipline:
Literature – poetry
Region: Baltimore, MD
MacDowell Fellowships: 2003, 2010, 2014
Studios
Phi Beta
James Arthur worked in the Phi Beta studio.
Funded by the Phi Beta Fraternity, a national professional fraternity of music and speech founded in 1912, Phi Beta Studio was built between 1929–1931 of granite quarried on the MacDowell grounds. The small studio is a simple in design, but displays a pleasing combination of materials with its granite walls and colorful slate roofing. Inside is…