Jim Barnes (writer)
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Jim Weaver McKown Barnes (born 1933) is a Native American
author born near Summerfield, Oklahoma (in Le Flore County) and is of Choctaw and Welsh heritage. He received his BA from Southeastern State College in Durant, OK (now Southeastern Oklahoma State University
) in 1964 and his MA (1965) and Ph.D. (1972) from the University of Arkansas
. He taught at Truman State University
from 1970 to 2003, where he was Professor of Comparative Literature and Writer-in-Residence. After retiring from Truman State, he was Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Brigham Young University
until 2006. On January 15, 2009, Barnes was named Oklahoma
poet laureate
for 2009-2010.
Barnes is the founding editor of the Chariton Review Press and editor of The Chariton Review. He is also a contributing editor to the Pushcart Prize
. He has published over 500 poems in more than 100 journals, as well as numerous translations. He has sat on several National Endowment for the Arts
committees and is presently Poetry Editor for the Truman State University Press. Barnes has given readings of his work at many college and university campuses, and his work is widely anthologized.
Barnes has been the Featured Poet at the Paris Writers Workshop and at the 13th Franco-Anglais Poetry Translation Festival. In 1995 he was the Munich Translator-in-Residence at Villa Walberta, Germany, and he has held two Carmargo Foundation Fellowships in Cassis, France and the U.S. Representative at the Prague Writer's Festival. In 1998 and in 2000, Jim was awarded Academie Schloß Solitude Fellowships in Stuttgart, Germany and received an American Book Award
for On Native Ground. In 2002, he was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in the Poetry category for On a Wing of the Sun.
Thomas Jefferson University Press.
Chariton Review Press.
New Odyssey Press.
American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, Vol 23, University of Oklahoma Press.
Critical Studies
A. Robert Lee
(ed), The Salt Companion to Jim Barnes, Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2009.
Native Americans in the United States
Native Americans in the United States are the indigenous peoples in North America within the boundaries of the present-day continental United States, parts of Alaska, and the island state of Hawaii. They are composed of numerous, distinct tribes, states, and ethnic groups, many of which survive as...
author born near Summerfield, Oklahoma (in Le Flore County) and is of Choctaw and Welsh heritage. He received his BA from Southeastern State College in Durant, OK (now Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Southeastern Oklahoma State University
Southeastern Oklahoma State University, often referred to as Southeastern and abbreviated as SE, or SOSU, is a public university located in Durant, Oklahoma, with an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 4,229 as of 2009.-History:...
) in 1964 and his MA (1965) and Ph.D. (1972) from the University of Arkansas
University of Arkansas
The University of Arkansas is a public, co-educational, land-grant, space-grant, research university. It is classified by the Carnegie Foundation as a research university with very high research activity. It is the flagship campus of the University of Arkansas System and is located in...
. He taught at Truman State University
Truman State University
Truman State University is a public liberal arts and sciences university in Missouri, United States and a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. About 6,000 students attend Truman, pursuing degrees in 43 undergraduate and 9 Graduate programs. It is located in Kirksville in...
from 1970 to 2003, where he was Professor of Comparative Literature and Writer-in-Residence. After retiring from Truman State, he was Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...
until 2006. On January 15, 2009, Barnes was named Oklahoma
Oklahoma
Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
poet laureate
Poet Laureate
A poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
for 2009-2010.
Barnes is the founding editor of the Chariton Review Press and editor of The Chariton Review. He is also a contributing editor to the Pushcart Prize
Pushcart Prize
The Pushcart Prize is an American literary prize by Pushcart Press that honors the best "poetry, short fiction, essays or literary whatnot" published in the small presses over the previous year. Magazine and small book press editors are invited to nominate up to 6 works they have featured....
. He has published over 500 poems in more than 100 journals, as well as numerous translations. He has sat on several National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
committees and is presently Poetry Editor for the Truman State University Press. Barnes has given readings of his work at many college and university campuses, and his work is widely anthologized.
Awards
Barnes received a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in 1978 and the Columbia University Translation Award for his translation of Dagmar Nick's Zeugnis und Zeichen (Summons and Signs) in 1980. In 1989 he was awarded the St. Louis Poetry Center's Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Award, and in 1990 he was awarded a Bellagio Residency Fellowship for the purpose of beginning his translations of Dagmar Nick's poetry by the Rockefeller Foundation. He held a second Rockefeller Bellagio Residency Fellowship in 2003. In 1992 Jim was a Distinguished Writer-in-Residence for the University of Maryland Far East Division. In 1993 Barnes received the Oklahoma Book Award for The Sawdust War, and he was awarded a Senior Fulbright Fellowship to Switzerland in 1993-94. In 1998, On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions was named a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in non-fiction and in the poetry category for Paris.Barnes has been the Featured Poet at the Paris Writers Workshop and at the 13th Franco-Anglais Poetry Translation Festival. In 1995 he was the Munich Translator-in-Residence at Villa Walberta, Germany, and he has held two Carmargo Foundation Fellowships in Cassis, France and the U.S. Representative at the Prague Writer's Festival. In 1998 and in 2000, Jim was awarded Academie Schloß Solitude Fellowships in Stuttgart, Germany and received an American Book Award
American Book Award
The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre...
for On Native Ground. In 2002, he was a finalist for the Oklahoma Book Award in the Poetry category for On a Wing of the Sun.
Poetry
- On a Wing of the Sun: Three Volumes of Poetry, University of Illinois Press.http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f01/barnes.html
- Paris: Poems, (Illinois Poetry Series), University of Illinois Press.http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f97/barnes.html
- The Sawdust War: Poems, University of Illinois Press.
- The La Plata Cantata: Poems, Purdue University Press.
- A Season of Loss, Purdue University Press.
- American Book of the Dead, University of Illinois Press.
- The Fish on Poteau Mountain, Cedar Creek Press.
- This Crazy Land, Inland Boat Series/Poarch Press.
- Five Missouri Poets, (editor), Chariton Review Press.
Translations and Criticism
- Fiction of Malcolm Lowry and Thomas Mann: Structural Tradition,
Thomas Jefferson University Press.
- Summons and Signs: poems, Dagmar Nick (Tr. Jim Barnes)
Chariton Review Press.
- Numbered Days: Poems, Dagmar Nick (Tr. Jim Barnes)
New Odyssey Press.
- "The Myth of Sisyphus in Under the Volcano," Prairie Schooner, 42, 341-348. 1968.
Prose
- On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions,
American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series, Vol 23, University of Oklahoma Press.
Critical Studies
A. Robert Lee
A. Robert Lee
-Life:His boyhood was spent in Manchester before moving on to a BA in English from University College London in 1963. He received a research MA from King's College London in 1965, with a thesis on Herman Melville, and holds a Ph.D from the University of Kent, UK. From 1967 until 1996 he taught at...
(ed), The Salt Companion to Jim Barnes, Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2009.
External links
- At the Festival de Poésie on the Artful Dodge
- Meeting Susan S. at Musée de l'Orangerie on the Artful Dodge
- The Good Dark at University of Illinois Press.
- Halcyon Days on In the Hey Days of His Eyes
- Ithaka 2001 on The HyperTexts
- Heading East Out of Rock Springs on The HyperTexts
- Feria de Paques, Arles 1996 on The HyperTexts
- Deputy Finds Dean's Tombstone on Highway on The HyperTexts
- The First Feria of the Third Millennium, Arles Easter Monday on The HyperTexts
See also
- Poets as Translators - Jim Barnes
- A brief resumé is available from the Missouri Author's Directory.