James P. Roberts

photo by Becca Tracey

CONTACT

324 Kedzie Street, Apt. 30
Madison, WI 53704

James P. Roberts
Madison, Wisconsin

BIO

James P. Roberts' poems have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Urbanus, Red Owl Review, Sozoryoku, Antares and many others. He often features music with his poems.

PUBLICATIONS

Darkling I listen, and For Many a Time ... and Other Imaginations, The Other Door Press (Science Fiction, Fantasy, Macabre Stories), 2005—$15.00
Spirit Fire, Hawk & Whippoorwill (Poetry), 2003—$10.00
Famous Wisconsin Authors, Badger Books/Waubesa Press (Non-Fiction), 2002—$15.00
Howlin' Wolf! A Fan's History of the Highs and Lows During Five Stormy Years with the Madison Black Wolf, White Hawk Press (Non-Fiction: Baseball), 2002—$15.00
Bourland, The Other Door Press (Novel of Dark Fantasy), 1999—$15.00
Derne Runes, White Hawk Press (Poetry), 1996—$8.00

These books are available from wisconsinauthor.com and amazon.com

BOOKINGS

2008

POEM

RHINOCEROS POEM

Rhinoceros, hippopotamus,
Arteriosclerosis, hippocampus...
words alone do not make a poem.

We must get them started lumbering,
thudding in the wet mud of our minds.

Some words become extinct.
A passenger pigeon explodes in frenzy
leaving tiny black marks on white paper.

Giraffe, auk,
antelope, gazelle...
see the poem leap gracefully,
arc in air, bound above tall prairie grass

then shot down by a hunter/critic
who, standing triumphant over the dead form

did not see the rhinoceros
sneaking up behind.

—James P. Roberts

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