Poet to give reading at W&J
Poet James Arthur will give a free reading at Washington & Jefferson College at 7 p.m. Feb. 26 in Room 103 of Howard J. Burnett Center.
Arthur was born in Connecticut and grew up in Canada. His poems have appeared in “The New Yorker,” “The New Republic,” “Poetry,” “The New York Review of Books,” and “The American Poetry Review.”
He received the Amy Lowell Traveling Poetry Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, a Stegner Fellowship, a residency at the Amy Clampitt House and a Discovery/The Nation Prize.
“Charms Against Lightning,” Arthur’s debut poetry collection, was published in 2012.
“Charms Against Lightning,” his debut poetry collection, was published by Copper Canyon Press in 2012.
Arthur is an assistant professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He recently taught at Queen’s University Belfast as a Fulbright Scholar in creative writing.