Jim Barnes received his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas. From 2003 to 2006 he served as Distinguished Professor of English at Brigham Young University. He has published over 500 poems and translations in more than 100 journals, including The Chicago Review, The American Scholar, Prairie Schooner and Georgia Review. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and near Atoka, Oklahoma.

Other poems by Jim Barnes in Verse Daily:
June 10, 2003:  "On the Hill Back of La Ciotat" "Poppies begin to bloom among..."
October 26, 2002:  "The Judgment of Paris (Whereabouts Unknown)" "Remember Paris, who herded Priam's flocks..."
September 10, 2002:  "The Good Dark" "....The whole sky / boils black / as gunpowder..."

Books by Jim Barnes:

Other poems on the web by Jim Barnes:
Five poems
"Directions"
Three poems

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