Published Verse in Periodicals
James's poetry has appeared in literary journals and award-winning collections.
“The Aunties.”
Black Horse Review. | 2025.
“Kempton, PA After My Death.”
Keystone: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania (University Park: Penn State University Press). Reprint | 2025
“Halcyon Days.”
Southwest Review 102.1 | 2017
“Last Poem About the Farm.”
National Poetry Review 14 | 2016
“Amaryllis.”
America (Sept 19 issue). | 2016
“From The Armenian Quarter,” “Kleptomania,” “The Frat Boys”
The Literary Imagination | 2016
“Black Walnuts, November.”
Southern Poetry Review. 53.2 | 2016
“Paperwhites.”
The Cape Rock. 42.1. | 2014
“Armenian Song.”
Sandy River Review (48). | 2014
“West Wind, Appledore.”
Lay Bare the Canvas: New England Poets on Art. | 2014
“Church on the Block.”
Collective Brightness, LGBIT Poets on Faith, Religion, and Sexuality. (Sibling Rivalry Press).
“Longed-For Rain.”
The Mennonite. 14.5. | 2011
“Street Scene,” “Still Life”
Christianity and Literature. 59:2 (Winter). | 2010
“With the Herd”
West Branch. 65 (Fall/Winter). | 2009
“Travelogue,” “My Big Head” (reprinted)
White Crane. 80: 19-20. | 2009
“My Big Head”
Tar River Poetry. | 2008.
“Near Apex, PA,” “Schoolhouse”
Watershed, a Journal of the Susquehanna. | 2008
“Armenian Lesson,” “Goat Song”
The Powow River Anthology (Ocean Publishing.) | 2006
“Armenian Lesson.”
Ararat. 46: 181 (Winter). | 2005
“My Son, at Seventeen.”
Sulphur River Literary Review. XXI: 1. | 2005
“Family Visit.”
New Zoo Poetry Review.
“On His Blindness.”
Primary Point. 21; 1. | 2003
“De Profundis” (trans. of George Trakl).
Blue Unicorn. 20:3. | 1997
“Resilience,” “An Introduction to the Devout Life”
Folio [American U.]. | 1996
“A Map of the Old Country,”
Ararat 36:142 | 1995
“A Dry Season.”
Connecticut River Review. 16: 1. | 1996
“Taking the Train to Reading, PA,” “The Bodies of Men,”
Jacaranda Review [UCLA] 4:1. | 1989