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James McKean

Iowa City, Iowa

James McKean is the author of Home Stand: Growing Up in Sports (Michigan State University Press, 2005), Tree of Heaven (University of Iowa Press, 1995), and Headlong (University of Utah Press, 1987). His poetry has been published in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's column, "American Life in Poetry." He lives in Iowa City.

Black and white headshot of poet James McKean

By James McKean

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Elegy for an Old Boxer

Column 062

Bindweed