James Reiss

James Reiss
Born	July 11, 1941 Washington Heights, Manhattan,New York,U.S.
Died	December 2, 2016 (aged 75) Wilmette, Illinois,U.S.
Academic background
Education	University of Chicago(BA,MA)
Academic work
Discipline	English literature
Institutions	Queens College Miami University

James Reiss(/riːs/REESS;July 11, 1941 – December 2, 2016) was an American poet and novelist.

Early life and education

Reiss grew up in theWashington Heightsneighborhood ofNew York Cityand in northernNew Jersey.He earned his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in English from theUniversity of Chicago.

Career

Reiss's poems have appeared in magazines that includeThe Atlantic,Esquire,The Nation,The New Republic,The New Yorker,Poetry,Slate,HuffPost,andVirginia Quarterly Review.

Reiss won grants from the Creative Artists Public Service Program of theNew York State Council on the Arts,theNational Endowment for the Arts,theNew York Foundation for the Artsand theOhio Arts Council.He has received awards from, among others, theAcademy of American Poets,thePoetry Society of America,thePushcart Pressand the Unterberg Poetry Center of the92nd Street Y.From 1971 to 1974, he was a regular poetry critic forThe Plain Dealerin Cleveland, Ohio. In 1977, he won first prize in New York’s Big Apple Bicentennial Poetry Contest. He won four annual Zeitfunk awards for his reviewing between 2007 and 2010, from thePublic Radio Exchange.

In 1975 and 1976, Reiss taught as poet-in-residence atQueens College, City University of New York.Reiss was also a professor emeritus of English and the founding editor of theMiami University PressatMiami UniversityinOxford, Ohio.

Personal life

At the time of his death, he lived inWilmette, Illinois,nearChicago.

Bibliography

Books

• Façade for a Penny Arcade[Spuyten Duyvil Publishing|Spuyten Duyvil], 2017)
• When Yellow Leaves[Spuyten Duyvil Publishing|Spuyten Duyvil], 2016)
• The Novel(WordTech Communications,2015)
• Greatest Hits: 1970-2005(Pudding House Press, 2005)
• Riff on Six: New and Selected Poems(Salt Publishing,2003)
• Ten Thousand Good Mornings(Carnegie Mellon University Press,2001)
• The Parable of Fire(Carnegie Mellon University Press,1996)
• Express(University of Pittsburgh Press,1983)
• The Breathers(Ecco Press,1974)
• Self-Interviews: James Dickey,co-ed. (Doubleday,1970;Louisiana State University Press,1984)

External links

• The Poetry Foundation
• Faculty Page, Miami University English Department
• James Reiss Collection in the Walter Havighurst Special Collections, Miami University
• Poetry 180: My Daughters in New York, by James Reiss