James Scully (poet)
Encyclopedia
Life
He spent 1973-1974 in Santiago de Chile, during the early Pinochet regime, which he documented in his poetry book, Santiago Poems.Over the years, his poetry has appeared in Poetry Magazine.
He has read his poetry at many colleges and universities, as well as the Theater of Latin America and the U.S. Congress.
He has written essays and plays as well as poetry, and during the early 1980s, he was general editor for Curbstone's ART ON THE LINE chapbook series.
He is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Connecticut
University of Connecticut
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, and lives in San Francisco.
California State University, Chico
California State University, Chico
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has named a poetry reading series for him.
Awards
- Winner of the 1967 Lamont Award
- recipient of a 1973 Guggenheim Fellowships.
- Quechua Peoples Poetry, Winner of the 1977 Islands & Continents Translation Award
- Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship
Poetry
- Boxcars (2006);
- Words Without Music (2004)
- Santiago Poems Curbstone Press (1975) ISBN 978-0-915306-21-3
- Communications (with Grandin Conover, 1970)