Jim Daniels' first book of nonfiction, Ignorance of Trees, is forthcoming from Cornerstone Press. His latest fiction book, The Luck of the Fall, was published by Michigan State University Press. His latest chapbook of poems, Ars Poetica Chemistra, was published by WPA Press. A native of Detroit, he currently lives in Pittsburgh and teaches in the Alma College low-residency MFA program.

Other poems by Jim Daniels in Verse Daily:
April 15, 2025:   "The Holy Whispers" "The stillness of Aunt Daisy's outhouse..."
October 18, 2024:   "The Deep End" "My father found my mother, ninety, crawling..."
November 6, 2023:   "Sawdust" "I think of Jesus as a carpenter..."
October 20, 2023:   "Elegy for the Exquisite" "Loneliness trumped loveliness..."
February 16, 2021:   "Tone Deaf" "Who can blame the piano player..."
April 5, 2020:   "Gospel" "I saw the Great Blue Heron today..."
January 15, 2018:   "A Brief History of Evolution" "God carved his name in cement...."
November 20, 2017:   "Hair on Fire" "We ironed fall leaves..."
September 20, 2013:   "Poetica No Apologia Arty Kumbaya" "I am not a minister's son or a former pro boxer..."
May 26, 2011:   "David Bowie Esperanto" "A flash of metal trash in a vacant lot...."
May 18, 2011:   "Flight Log" "The prop plane tilts a wing..."
August 4, 2005:   "Historical Accuracy "The way she hummed made me want..."

Other poems on the web by Jim Daniels:
"In This Particular Sunshine"
"Roaming the Galleries"
"The Peaches"
"Going Up and Down"
"Tunnel to Canada"
Two poems
"Hit and Run"
Two poems
"Timbre"
"October"
Four poems
Two poems
Three poems
"Wheels"
Two poems
"Factory Love"
Four poems
Two poems
"Prodigal Son Returns to Warren, Michigan"
"Past My Bedtime Suite"
"Biopsy"
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
Three poems

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