James R. Srimgeour received his BA from Clark University, his MA and PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is Professor Emeritus at Western Connecticut State University. He has served as Editor of Connecticut Review and has published nine books of poetry and over 220 poems in anthologies and periodicals. He has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes and has given over 250 public readings of his work, including one at an International Conference on Poetry and History, Stirling, Scotland. He has been invited to participate in NEH Seminars on Modern Poetry at NYU and Princeton and has served on panels at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival. He was one of five Commecticut poets featured on CBS poetry blog and was Poet Laureate of New Milford,CT. He conducts poetry programs in libraries, bith in New Milford and in Rockport, MA, where he and his wife, Christine Xanthakos Scrimgeour, spend much of their time.
