James McCorkle :: Poetry This site introduces my publications on poetry and poetics—both my collections of poems and works on poetry and poetics. The site will be periodically updated, corrected, amended, and expanded. In other words, it is another work in progress.
If you are interested in my books of poetry, I urge you to either contact the publisher or your favorite independent bookstore.
Featured Publications
Evidences
Describing these poems, Jorie Graham wrote, “That this imagination can move, even more extraordinarily, from its deep apprenticeship to the biological (and geographic and geologic) to the outmost reaches of not only history, but historical atrocity, in poems that track and engage Anselm Kiefer’s paintings, is one of the great wonders of the book.”
These poems tense between lush description and the violences within those landscapes. Donald Revell notes “A poet is made of idioms and of their intimate, eventually public transgressions. This, then, is the true subtlety of James McCorkle’s beautiful collection.” Carol-Ann Davis writes, “What a gift James McCorkle has given us by writing this book!” 16.00 (PBk) Available at Etruscan Press: https://etruscanpress.org/
In Time is one of three full-length collections in Triptych, which also includes Peter Grandbois’ The Three-Legged World and Robert Miltner’s Orpheus & Echo. David Baker notes that “this rich new book, Triptych, something singular, it is to show a small part of the singular diversity and range of contemporary American poetry” including “James McCorkle’s chewy, sustained meditations on time.” 18.00 (PBk) Available through Etruscan Press: https://etruscanpress.org/
Forthcoming Books
SEVEN CYCLES
ONTARIO
Recently Published
Client
The Atlas Project
Year
01/01/0001
Find me on Instagram, Facebook, and Bluesky & at these events . . .
Seneca Review Reading . . . 6:30-8:30 in the evening, July 22, 2026 . . . Two Goats Brewing, Burdett, NY
Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association, November 12-15, 2026 Seattle, WA
