University of Massachusetts Amherst

Visiting Writers Series: James Haug

The Visiting Writers Series invites you to a reading by poet James Haug. All VWS events are free, open to the public, and wheelchair accessible.

A graduate of the UMass MFA Program for Poets and Writers, James Haug is the author of Walking Liberty (Northeastern University Press, 1999), winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize; The Stolen Car (University of Massachusetts Press, 1989); and the chapbooks Fox Luck (New York Center For Book Arts, 1998) and A Plan To Catch Amanda (Factory Hollow Press, 2007). He has been published by The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Field, and American Commentary & Letters. His next book, Legends of the Recent Past, is forthcoming in the spring of 2009. He lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with his family, and is currently a guest poet on the UMass MFA faculty.