James Arthur (poet)
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James Arthur (born 1974, in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American-Canadian poet. He grew up in Toronto, Canada.[1] Arthur's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, Ploughshares, London Review of Books, The Walrus, and The American Poetry Review.
Arthur lives in Baltimore, Maryland and is an associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.[2]
Style
He began his career at the University of Toronto, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1998. He then earned a Master of Arts in Fiction from the University of New Brunswick in 2001 and a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Washington in 2003.[2] Arthur taught composition at Northwest Missouri State University.[3] He has also taught as an instructor at the School of Continuing Studies at Stanford University.[4]
Arthur is now an Associate Professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He also serves as Director of Graduate Studies.[5]
Arthur's poems leverage rhythm to make a sort of "music". He said in an interview with the Los Angeles Review of Books, "I've always loved poems that can assert a hypnotic power over the listener, that can transport the listener through sound."[6] Arthur's style is marked by free verse lines that incorporate rhyme and meter.[7]
