JAMES ARTHUR: On the art and essence of poetry
JAMES ARTHUR is a poet whose works have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, The New York Review of Books, and The American Poetry Review. His debut poetry collected, Charms Against Lightning, is available from Copper Canyon Press, and he has received the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a residency at the Amy Clampitt House, and a Discovery/The Nation Prize. James was born in Connecticut and grew up in Canada, but on a more local note, he is an Assistant Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
Guest co-host Jeff Smith, acclaimed poet James Arthur, and total nerd Stephanie Fowler
