James McCorkle

James McCorkle is a poet and literary critic. He is the author of the poetry collections Evidences, The Subtle Bodies, and In Time, and has two more collections due in 2027. His critical work includes a study of postmodern American poetry and co-edited reference encyclopedias of American poets. He has received Ingram Merrill and NEA fellowships in poetry and co-directed the Africana Studies Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. His essays focus on poets and visual artists with attention to eco-poetics, memory, and race and the diaspora. His poems have appeared in The Red Wheelbarrow, one of several magazines he has published in, and he was featured in Jacket magazine's issue 19 (October 2002).