James Ballowe Mailing Address: Box 490 Toulon, IL  61483 County: Stark e-mail:  jcballowe@aol.com Phone: work: 309-677-2471 home: 708-524-8256  &  309-286-6321 fax: 309-677-2330 Genre: Poetry/Creative Non-Fiction

 

Periodical Publications:

• Review essays in North Dakota Quarterly
• Narrated and wrote "The Herrin Massacre," a half-hour "All Things Considered" National Public Radio broadcast, 31 August 1997 (rewritten from essay published in Chicago Reader, 1995)
• "The Expansional Muse of Laurence Lieberman," The Chariton Review (Fall, 1996)

Book Publications:

• Editor with Tony Curtis and Raymond Garlick, Anglo-Welch Poetry (insert), North Dakota Quarterly, 1988
• The Coal Miners, Spoon River Poetry Press, 1979
• Editor: George Santayana's America, U. of Illinois Press, 1967; 1969
• "Foreward" to Gary DeNeal's A Knight of Another Sort, November 1998, Southern Illinois U. Press
• Essay on creative non-fiction and Illinois books on violence, Illinois History, 2000
• Cover story on Franklin County Jail (Benton, IL) in Historic Illinois, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency

Forthcoming Publications:

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• 2 Arts Council awards for poetry
• Arts Council award for creative non-fiction

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

• Cliffdwellers (Chicago), dedication poem, 1996
• Illinois Portfolio (with John Knoepfle, Dave Etter, Lisa Mueller, Forrest Robinson, and Kevin Stein), a travelling exhibition, 1997
• Lecture, Newberry Library (Chicago), 1997 Chicago Humanities Festival
• Panel, Chicago Historical Society, 1997 Chicago Humanities Festival
• Chicago Academy of Performing Arts, Poetry 1998

Recent Workshops:

Present Employment:

• Bradley University

Preferred Audience:

• No preferred audience

Willing to travel:

• yes