Jim Daniels

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James Raymond Daniels (b. 1956 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American poet and writer. He is best known as a major figure in working-class poetry in the United States.

Since 1981, Daniels has been on the faculty of the creative writing program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He won the inaugural Brittingham Prize in Poetry in 1985 from the University of Wisconsin. He was educated at Alma College and Bowling Green State University.

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Factory Poems, poetry (Alma: Jack-in-the-Box Press, 1979)
On the Line, poetry (Menomonee Falls: Signpost Press, 1981)
Places/Everyone, poetry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985)
The Long Ball, poetry (Pittsburgh: Pig-in-a-Poke Press, 1988)
Digger's Territory, poetry (Easthampton: Adastra Press, 1989)
Punching Out, poetry (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990)
Hacking It, poetry (St. Clair Shores: Ridgeway Press, 1992)
M-80, poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993)
The Carnegie Mellon Anthology of Poetry, (co-editor), a poetry anthology (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1993)
Niagara Falls, poetry (Easthampton: Adastra Press, 1994)
No Pets, screenplay (Braddock: Braddock Films, 1994)
Letters to America: Contemporary Poetry on Race, (editor), a poetry anthology (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1995)
Blessing the House, poetry (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1993)
Brooding the Heartlands, poetry (Huron: Bottom Dog Press, 1998)
No Pets, stories (Huron: Bottom Dog Press, 1999)
Blue Jesus, poetry (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000)
American Poetry: The Next Generation, (co-editor), a poetry anthology (Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2000)
Black Vinyl, Red Vinyl, poetry (Toledo: Aureole Press, 2001)
Greatest Hits, poems (Johnstown: Pudding House Press, 2002)
Night with Drive-by Shooting Stars, poems (Kalamazoo: New Issues Press, 2002)
Detroit Tales, stories (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2003)
Show and Tell: New and Selected Poems, poetry (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)
Street, poems (Huron: Bottom Dog Press, 2005)
Dumpster, screenplay (Pittsburgh: Three Rivers Film Festival, 2005)