Barnes, Jim, 1933-....

Jim Weaver Barnes, of Choctaw-Welsh ancestry, was born in Summerfield, Oklahoma, in 1933. After high school, he attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University (BA, 1964) and the University of Arkansas (MA, 1965, PhD, 1970). His teaching career consisted of posts as professor of Comparative Literature at Truman State University, 1970-2003, and professor of English at Brigham Young University, 2003-2006. Barnes recently remarried and retired to Santa Fe. During his years as a professor, Barnes became the founding editor of Chariton Review Press and editor of Chariton Review, and published over 500 poems in more than 100 journals, including The Chicago Review, The American Scholar, Prairie Schooner, and the Georgia Review (not to mention several journals of Native American poetry). He has also written 9 books of poetry, 2 textbooks, an autobiography, and a book of criticism, translated two books of poetry from German, and served as the editor or co-editor for over 40 anthologies. Barnes has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships for his poetry and translation.