James King
James King is a poet from New Hampshire. He is the recipient of the 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize from Dartmouth College, a finalist in the 2023 NC State Poetry Competition, and has been nominated twice for the Pushcart Prize. His writing has appeared in Bear Review, ONE ART, Passages North, and others. He holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and is currently working on his first book-length manuscript.
Publications
“Our Respective Squares” — Poets.org (College Prize)
“Something to Drink To” — Humana Obscura
“Love Poem with Statue of Juno” — Chautauqua
“Praise Song for the Cow Loose on Route 16 Going the Right Way” — Exposition Review — Pushcart Prize nominee
“Ode to Danville” — Anti-Heroin Chic
“Half-Suicide Beginning with the Death of a Brown Bear” — Bear Review — Pushcart Prize nominee
“In Light of Recent Fires” — The Shore
“Classics” — Variant Lit
“Boyhood” — Thimble
Four Poems — ONE ART
“Aria for a Used Space Suit” — Pithead Chapel
Two Poems — The Boiler
“Man Robs Bank Disguised as Tree” — Passages North
“Care Instructions” — Door = Jar
“Closeup of the Whale’s Eye” — Moon City Review (forthcoming)
“Spotify Wrapped Tells You Exactly What You've Been Missing” — Press Pause Press (forthcoming)
