"SOFT POWER accomplishes what I thought was no longer possible. It is political without being prescriptive... it is sure of itself without being sure of its conclusions." GREAT review of Stewart Cole's SOFT POWER in The Fiddlehead! #Poetry #Review thefiddlehead.ca/content/kumqua…

We're delighted to announce that James Pollock's DURABLE GOODS has won the 2022 Edna Meudt Poetry Book Award! A reading is scheduled for Saturday, May 20, 2023, at 6 pm at the Arts+Literature Laboratory in Madison, Wisconsin. Congratulations Jim!

I loved contributing to this Entrances episode of Ms. Lyric's Poetry Outlaws, with podcast host Catherine Owen, in which I discourse a little on poetry as an embodied art form, and read my poem "Dishwasher" from Durable Goods. podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cathe…

Great episode James Pollock! DURABLE GOODS is available directly from us: bit.ly/3yywFmI

“Literature in the context of social history has been our credo." Huge thanks to quillandquire and cassandra drudi for this wonderful piece on our 50th anniversary. quillandquire.com/omni/steady-at…

Alicia E. Stallings Don’t miss out on James Pollock’s “Durable Goods”!

Thank you @aquietroot! I hope you enjoy it.

Loved doing this interview with Sharon Berg for The Temz Review. Topics include the title of my book Durable Goods, thing-poems, chameleon poets, the convergence of animism with Continental philosophy, and how meter is like the drum kit in a band. Enjoy! thetemzreview.com/berg-pollock.h…

Thank you The Temz Review! And thanks for the opportunity.

Ver kind of you, @LawrenceMooreUK, thank you!

With the woman of the hour. Congratulations, dear Jen, for winning the National Magazine Awards 🇨🇦 2023 Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement!

Read Sharon Berg's great interview of James Pollock in Issue 23! In terms of genre, all the poems in the book are thing-poems, that is, lyric poems about things in the world, such that the poems imagine their way into those things in various ways... thetemzreview.com/berg-pollock.h…

Ahead of the release of my new verse novel, why not bone up on my first one, Forgotten Work? It's set in the same world & New York Times Books called it, "unlikely, audacious and ingenious." There's even malfunctioning & murderous AI! Check it out: biblioasis.com/shop/poetry/fo… Biblioasis

Madison people! Please come to the July Watershed Reading at the Arts + Literature Laboratory this Saturday at 7 pm. I'll be reading poems from my latest book, Durable Goods, along with the poet Chessy Normile and memoirist Jane Barnard. artlitlab.org/events/july-wa…

This was one of my favourite #TheSealeyChallenge selections from last year - the #poetry, the imagery, the transcribing and the photos (including a "mirror" image)! The collection is DURABLE GOODS by James Pollock (2022 Vehicule Press) bit.ly/3PDRLGL

Loved doing this interview with aAh! Magazine in the U.K., in which I opine on poetry prizes, treating objects as persons, ambiguity, and the honesty of the critic.

Thrilled that I've been granted a sabbatical by Loras College for the Spring of 2025. I'll be writing a new book of poems and two critical essays on contemporary poets. Very grateful to my colleagues who read this year's applications.

What a great choice! Congratulations, Carmine Starnino!

If, like me, you’ve lost interest in our culture’s glut of lyric poems, give The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles a shot: a novel written in rhyming couplets and one of the The Globe and Mail’s best books of 2023 biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/n… Biblioasis

Hey, cool, the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association (SF & F Poetry Assn) has nominated The Full-Moon Whaling Chronicles for an Elgin Award! You can get FM, which The Wall Street Journal calls "the most imaginative piece of young-adult-adjacent fiction I have ever read," here biblioasis.com/shop/fiction/n…