James Galvin

James Galvin was born in Chicago in 1951 and was raised in northern Colorado. He earned a BA from Antioch College in 1974 and an MFA from the University of

For more than three decades, poet and prose writer James Galvin has remained a remarkably influential figure in American arts and letters.

James Galvin has published eight books of poems, most recently Everything We Always Knew Was True (Copper Canyon Press, 2016). His new and collected poems,

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“Before a backdrop of natural beauty, he lived a life from which everything was taken but a place. He lived so close to the real world it almost let him in.”

James Galvin (born 1951) is the author of seven volumes of poetry, a memoir, and a novel. He teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop in Iowa City, Iowa.

James Galvin was born in Chicago and earned a BA from Antioch College and an MFA from the University of Iowa. He is the author of several collections of poetry.

James Galvin writes poetry that is inspired by the often harsh landscape of southwestern Wyoming, where he spent most of a decade building a log home.