James K. Zimmerman is an award-winning poet and frequent Pushcart Prize nominee. His poems have been published in journals such as Atlanta Review, Carolina Quarterly, december, Chautauqua, Folio, Lumina, Nimrod, Pleiades, and Rattle, among many others. He has read his works in dozens of venues, including Poets’ House, KGB, Cornelia St. Cafe, San Jose State University, PCCC, Amherst Writers & Artists, and the Association of Writers & Publishers. His book of poems, “Little Miracles” (2015) is published by Passager Books. A second book of poems, “Family Cookout” (2016), is the winner of the 2015 Jessie Bryce Niles Award from Comstock Review Books.

Both books are available directly by contacting JKZ by email — jkz@jameskzimmerman.net — or on Amazon or eBay.

A third book, “The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dōgen,” is scheduled for publication on March 15, 2024, by The Poetry Box Press. Prepublication copies at a discount are available here until Feb. 15.

JKZ will participate in an online reading on Saturday, March 9, at 7 p.m. EST. The link can be accessed through The Poetry Box events page.

If you’re interested in an inscribed copy, please email JKZ directly at jkz@jameskzimmerman.net.

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Feel free to contact JKZ at any time at jkz@jameskzimmerman.net.