Poetry. "When words begin to mumble...they speak secret truths. SOCIAL STUDIES is not about interior space but anterior space; near front and center yet buried under the surface. A place where Tom Waits and Solomon Burke are soul brothers, but where even those conjoined never connect. But there is a commanding grace here, a voice as loud as a trumpet, but as resonant as an insistent whisper"--Marlon James.

Author City: WILKES-BARRE, PA USA

Jim Warner earned degrees in Psychology and English. He performs across the northeast, and is the long-time host for the Wilkes-Barre Barnes & Noble Poetry Series. Jim's work has appeared in various journals including HazMat Review and Word Riot, in the anthology In the Arms of Words: Poetry for Disaster Relief (Sherman Asher), and on numerous buses, phone booths and bathroom walls. Jim's first full-length collection, TOO BAD IT'S POETRY, was released in the fall of 2007 by Paper Kite Press. Jim Warner currently lives (with an oversized record collection) and works in Wilkes-Barre as Assistant Director of Graduate Creative Writing Programs at Wilkes University.