James Cervantes

James Cervantes's latest book, From Mr. Bondo's Unshared Life, is available from Hamilton Stone Editions, and at Amazon. Other books include Sleepwalker's Songs: New & Selected Poems, Temporary Meaning, The Headlong Future, The Year Is Approaching Snow, and Changing The Subject, a dialogue in poems with Halvard Johnson. He was editor of The Salt River Review for thirteen years, and is currently foreign correspondent for Hinchas de Poesia. Cervantes has been publishing poetry in print since 1969 and almost exclusively online since 1997.

Once upon a time, he could truthfully claim to be a professional musician — a cellist, as a matter of fact — whose last gig was with the U.S. Air Force Orchestra (1963-1967). Cervantes's other lives included working as a landscaper, a survey draftsman, a psychiatric aide, and, more or less significantly, a professor of English. Retired since 2006, he and his wife and two cats live in San Miguel de Allende where the food and altitude are amenable.