Education
Dartmouth College.
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As When, in Season
(Poetry. Jim Schley's first full-length collection of poem...)
Poetry. Jim Schley's first full-length collection of poems is made of sequences that turn upon phases of living--traveler, apprentice, homesteader and new parent, then troubled but still engaged citizen of a village and a world. At the book's center is a suite of portraits of crucial teachers, where the conventional relation of female muses to male artist is reversed, as these muses are virtuosos, masters of survival and creation. "I like these poems immensely. What Schley has done is to reinvent the ode, especially in the nine poems for the muses. Prosodically he's discovered an odic tone, grave but graceful, imaginatively objective. It's extremely effective, and it tokens a very large degree of literary depth and experience"--Hayden Carruth.
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As When, in Season (Paperback) - Common
(Schley's first full-length collection of poems is made of...)
Schley's first full-length collection of poems is made of sequences that turnupon phases of living--traveler, apprentice, homesteader and new parent, thentroubled but still engaged citizen of a village and a world.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EQC9FH2/?tag=2022091-20
Jim Schley
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He is author of two poetry collections, most recently,, and has had his poems published in many literary journals and magazines including Ironwood, Crazyhorse, Rivendell, and Orion Magazine, in anthologies including Best American Spiritual Writing, and on The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Schley was Company-Editor of the literary quarterly New England Review (1980-1986), Production Editor at University Press of New England, and Managing Editor then Editor-in-Chief at the book publisher Chelsea Green, where he developed a line of "sustainable living" books about organic gardening and farming, renewable energy, and ecological building techniques. He was executive director of The Frost Place museum and poetry center from 2006–2008.
He has also toured extensively with theater companies including the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater, the Swiss ensemble Les Montreurs d’Images, and the Flock Dance Troupe.
In 2004, following the unexpected loss of a job, he wrote a "My Turn" feature for Newsweek magazine about the experience of working numerous part-time jobs at once. lieutenant appeared in the September 20th, 2004 issue.
He is currently Managing Editor of Tupelo Press and teaches writing at the Community College of Vermont. Schley was born and raised in Wisconsin, and moved to New England in the 1970s to attend Dartmouth College, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts He earned his Master of Fine Arts from Warren Wilson College.
Jim and the house were featured in an article in the New York Times, June 19, 1999.
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As When, in Season (Paperback) - Common
(Schley's first full-length collection of poems is made of...)
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As When, in Season
(Poetry. Jim Schley's first full-length collection of poem...)
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As When, in Season (Paperback) - Common
Membership
He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and an associate of the journalists" collective Homelands Productions.
