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Author Archives: James McManus

James McManus was born in the South Bronx in 1951. He is the author of Positively Fifth Street, Going to the Sun, and nine other books of poetry, fiction, and fact. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Paris Review, and two editions of The Best American Poetry. He teaches at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.