![]() His books of poetry include The Sawdust War, On a Wing of the Sun, and Visiting Picasso, and he also penned the American Book Award-winning On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions. SIDELIGHTS:Īn editor, translator, and educator, Jim Barnes is also a respected poet of the American landscape. ![]() Contributor of poems, articles, and translations to journals, including Nation, Treasure World (under pseudonym Jacques Tisserand), Prairie Schooner, Poetry Now, Chicago Review, and Focus/Midwest. Work represented in anthologies, including The Remembered Earth: An Anthology of Contemporary Native American Literature, Red Earth, 1979 The Pushcart Prize V: Best of the Small Presses, Pushcart, 1980 and Anthology of Magazine Verse and Yearbook of American Poetry, Monitor Book, 1980. Visiting Picasso (poetry), University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 2007. On a Wing of the Sun (poetry includes The American Book of the Dead, A Season of Loss, and La Plata Cantata), University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 2001. (Translator from the German) Dagmar Nick, Gezählte Tage/Numbered Days, New Odyssey (Kirksville, MO), 1998. Paris: Poems, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 1997. On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions, University of Oklahoma Press (Norman, OK), 1997. The Sawdust War, University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 1992. ![]() La Plata Cantata (poetry also see below), Purdue University Press (West Lafayette, IN), 1989.įiction of Malcolm Lowry and Thomas Mann: Structural Tradition, Jefferson University Press (Kirksville, MO), 1990. The American Book of the Dead (poems also see below), University of Illinois Press (Urbana, IL), 1982.Ī Season of Loss (poetry also see below), Purdue University Press (West Lafayette, IN), 1985. The Fish on Poteau Mountain (poems), Cedar Creek, 1980. (Translator from the German) Dagmar Nick, Summons and Sign, Chariton Review Press (Kirksville, MO), 1980. This Crazy Land (poems), Inland Boat Series, 1980. ![]() (Editor) Five Missouri Poets, Chariton Review Press, 1979. National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, 1978 translation award from Translation Center at Columbia University, 1980, for Summons and Sign Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio residency fellowship, 1990, 2003 Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry, 1992, for The Sawdust War Senior Fulbright fellowship, 1993-94 Translation Residency, City of Munich, Germany, 1994 Camargo Foundation fellowship, 1996, 2001 American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 1998, for On Native Ground Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry finalist, 2002, for On a Wing of the Sun. PEN American Center (chair, translation award committee, 2005), PEN Center USA West, National Association for Ethnic Studies, Associated Writing Programs, Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines. Gives poetry readings throughout the United States and internationally. Chariton Review at Chariton Review Press, Kirksville, MO, then Santa Fe, NM, editor, beginning 1976. Chair, Camargo Foundation Creative Writing selection committee, 2001-07. Guest writer at Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, 2000. Giustina Brothers Lumber Co., Eugene, OR, lumberjack, 1954-59 Northeastern Oklahoma State University, Tahlequah, instructor in English, 1965-68 Northeast Missouri State University (now Truman State University), Kirksville, instructor in English, 1970-74, assistant professor, 1974-76, associate professor, beginning 1980, and professor of comparative literature, poetry editor, and writer in residence, 1994-2003 Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, distinguished professor of English and creative writing, 2003-04. Office-Chariton Review, 821 Camino de Jemez, Santa Fe, NM 87501. Ethnicity: "Native American." Education: Southeastern State College (now Southeastern Oklahoma State University), B.A., 1964 University of Arkansas, M.A., 1965, Ph.D., 1972. Born December 22, 1933, in Summerfield, OK son of Austin Oscar (a rancher) and Bessie Vernon (a rancher) Barnes married Cora "Kandi" McKown, June, 1964 (divorced, 1973) married Carolyn Louis Turpin, Novem(died, May, 2004) remarried McKown, Januchildren: (adopted) Bret Alan, Blake Anthony. ![]()
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