James Edward King
James Edward 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. He lives in Wilmington, NC, where he works as an editor and the coordinator for the UNCW Young Writers Workshop. His writing has appeared in Bear Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, ONE ART, and others.
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
“Closeup of the Whale’s Eye” — Moon City Review (forthcoming)
“Care Instructions” — Door Is A Jar (forthcoming)
