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"A
Diverse Gathering of Acclaimed Authors" |
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James
Cervantes
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Initially trained as a cellist,
James Cervantes began writing poetry while serving in the U.S. Air Force Orchestra in Washington, D.C. between 1963-1967. He has published two books of poetry:
The Year is Approaching Snow and The Headlong
Future, which was selected for the 1987 Capricorn Poetry Prize.
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He has written several chapbooks, including
Changing the Subject, a selection of poems by Cervantes and Halvard Johnson that were part of a dialogue-through-poems on the café-blue listserv during the summer of 1998, and
Live Music, a chapbook of poems that are rather like a duet, with music accompanying life, and vice-versa. He has appeared in dozens of print and electronic magazines, and in 1997 he founded
The Salt River Review, an online publication.
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Cervantes earned his B.A. in English/Writing at the University of Washington, and his M.F.A. at the University of Iowa. He has also studied and taught in Vermont, California, and Arizona, and has been Professor of English at Mesa Community College since 1992. Cervantes can often be found hiking in the mountains of northern Arizona.
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