Ohioana Helen and Laura Krout
Memorial Poetry Award: 2005
James Reiss of Oxford OH
 James Reiss is a native
New Yorker who has made a career of poetry and teaching in the Midwest.
He attended the University of Chicago and after graduating, accepted a position with the English Department of
Miami University in Oxford, where he established the university’s creative writing program.
He also was involved in Ohio’s Poet in the Schools Program and served as editor of the Miami University Press.
The author of six books of poetry, Reiss has won two Academy of American Poets first prizes, the Poetry
Center Discovery Award and fellowships from Breadloaf, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ohio Arts
Council. His poem, “The Breathers” about the death of his newborn son, has been widely anthologized.
In addition to his poetry collections, his poems have been published in such places as
The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, The Hudson Review, The Kenyon Review,
The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Poetry, and Slate.
Selected Poetry Collections
Riff on Six: New and Selected Poems, Salt Publishing, 2003
Ten Thousand Good Mornings, Carnegie Mellon Univ Press, 2001
Greatest Hits: 1970-2005 Pudding House Publications, 2005
The Parable of Fire Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1996
Express University of Pittsburgh Press, 1983
The Breathers Ecco Press/Viking, 1974
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