James Cummins is an American

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Biography

Cummins teaches at the University of Cincinnati and is the

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of the Elliston Poetry Collection. He is married to the poet and

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, Maureen Bloomfield (''Error and Angels'', University of South Carolina, 1997). They have two daughters. His poems have appeared in

The Best American Poetry series ''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems. Background The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the general ...

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

, and

2005 File:2005 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf of Mexico; the Funeral of Pope John Paul II is held in Vatican City; "Me at the zoo", the first video ever to be uploaded to YouTube; Eris was discovered in ...

. Series editor

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thanked Cummins for "useful suggestions" in the

and

2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...

editions of the series.

Published books

*''Portrait in a Spoon'' (University of South Carolina, 1997) *''The Whole Truth'' (North Point, 1986; Carnegie Mellon, 2003) *''Then and Now'' (Swallow Press, 2004) *''Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man'' (Soft Skull Press, 2005, with

David Lehman David Lehman (born June 11, 1948David Lehman
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and

Archie Rand Archie Rand (born 1949) is an American artist from Brooklyn, New York, United States. Education and career Born in Brooklyn, Rand received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in cinegraphics from the Pratt Institute, having studied previously at the Art St ...

). *''Still Some Cake'' (Carnegie Mellon Press, 2012)

References

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