Discipline: Literature – poetry

James Harms

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Morgantown, WV
MacDowell Fellowships: 1987
James Harms is the author of eight books of poetry including, most recently, What To Borrow, What To Steal (Marick Press, 2011) and Comet Scar (Carnegie Mellon UP in 2012). His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the PEN/Revson Fellowship and three Pushcart Prizes. He lives with his wife, Amanda Cobb, and their children in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he is professor of English at West Virginia University. He also directs the low-residency M.F.A. program at New England College.

Studios

Garland

James Harms worked in the Garland studio.

Marian MacDowell and friends originally named this studio in memory of Anna Baetz, the nurse who helped care for Edward MacDowell in the waning years of his life. With generous support from the Garland family, the studio was renovated in 2013 and renamed the Peter and Mary Garland Studio. The inward opening, diamond-pane windows were replaced…

Learn more