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The Kenyon Review is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, home of Kenyon College. The Review was founded in 1939 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] by John Crowe Ransom , critic and professor of English at Kenyon College, who served as its editor until 1959 .
He received an MFA from Warren Wilson College. [3] May has taught at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, and was a fellow at the Kenyon Review between 2014 and 2016. [4] [5] May cites Vievee Francis, another poet from Detroit, as an influence and mentor. His work has appeared in the Best American Poetry 2014,The Believer, Poetry, and Ploughshares.
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John Crowe Ransom (April 30, 1888 – July 3, 1974) was an American educator, scholar, literary critic, poet, essayist and editor. He is considered to be a founder of the New Criticism school of literary criticism. As a faculty member at Kenyon College, he was the first editor of the widely regarded Kenyon Review. Highly respected as a teacher ...
His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, [1] The New Republic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, [2] The Paris Review, [3] Poetry, and The Yale Review. He lives in Granville, Ohio, [4] and serves as poetry editor of the Kenyon Review. [5] [6] [7]
Wright's son Franz Wright was also a poet; Franz won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2004. Together, James and Franz are the only parent/child pair to have won a Pulitzer Prize in the same category. Wright was a lifelong smoker, and was diagnosed in late 1979 with cancer of the tongue. He died a few months later in Calvary Hospital in the Bronx.
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He has published poems, essays, and reviews in literary journals and magazines including The Paris Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry, A Public Space, AGNI, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, [4] Boston Review, Georgia Review, and in The Best American Poetry (2003, 2009, 2021).