Five Willows Literary Review

Monday, April 21, 2014

Poetry ---- James Bertolino

James Bertolino’s poetry has been appearing internationally in books, magazines and anthologies for over 40 years. His first book was published in 1968, and Every Wound Has A Rhythm was published in 2012 by World Enough Writers. His 12th volume,Ravenous Bliss: New and Selected Love Poems, is forthcoming in 2014 from MoonPath Press.

Bertolino’s poetry has been recognized nationally by the Book-of-the-Month Club Poetry Fellowship, the Discovery Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two Quarterly Review of Literature book publication awards and the Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize for Washington State Poets. He earned his MFA at Cornell University, and has taught at Cornell, University of Cincinnati and Western  Washington University. He retired in 2006 from a position as Writer in Residence and Chair of Creative Writing at Willamette University in Oregon, and lives on five rural acres with his wife Anita K. Boyle near Bellingham, Washington



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