Discipline: Literature – poetry

James Cory

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Philadelphia, PA
MacDowell Fellowships: 2014

Jim Cory worked on two manuscripts of poems. His interests include jazz and classical music, utopia in all its forms, American history, and anything that has wings.

Studios

Wood

James Cory worked in the Wood studio.

Wood Studio, given to the residency program by Mrs. Frederick Trevor Hill, was completed in 1913 in memory of Mrs. Hill’s mother, Helen Ogden Wood. Like Schelling Studio, the building is sided with large, overlapping pieces of hemlock bark. When the studio was renovated in 1995, MacDowell staff researched the origins of this unusual building material and…

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