Portrait of Jim Powell

Jim Powell

Jim Powell is the author of two collections of poetry, It Was Fever That Made The World (University of Chicago Press, 1989) and Substrate (Pantheon, 2009), and the translator of The Poetry Of Sappho (Oxford University Press, 2007). He is a MacArthur Fellow and a former Sherry Poet at the University of Chicago. He was born and lives in the San Francisco Bay area. (updated 9/2015)

AGNI has published the following work:

The Test

Poetry by Jim Powell

The Moon in the Family Tree

Poetry by Jim Powell

AGNI has published the following translation:

Ars Poetica

Poetry by Jorge Luis Borges Translated by Jim Powell
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