James, D. R.: - D. R. James's seven previous poetry collections include If god were gentle (Dos Madres Press 2017), Since Everything Is All I've Got (March Street Press 2011), and the chapbooks Split-Level and Why War (both Finishing Line Press 2017 and 2014). Poems and prose appear in various print and online journals, including Bullets into Bells, Caring Magazine, Coe Review, Diner, Dunes Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Friends of William Stafford Newsletter, Galway Review, HEArt Online, Hotel Amerika, Ithaca Lit, North Dakota Quarterly, Passager, Rattle, Rise Up Review, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Sycamore Review, and The Writer's Chronicle; and anthologies, including Ritual to Read Together: Poems in Conversation with William Stafford (Woodley 2013) and Poetry in Michigan / Michigan in Poetry (New Issues 2013). James has been teaching writing, literature, and peace-making at a small college for 34 years and lives in the woods outside of Saugatuck, Michigan, with his wife, psychotherapist Suzy Doyle. Between them they have six grown children, four grandchildren, and two cats.