See Jim Schley’s ongoing archive of reviews and features in the print and online weekly Seven Days.
Read Jim's story of befriending writer Janey McCafferty while working at New England Review, in the journal's Fortieth Anniversary gathering of essays by former editors.
Read Jim’s essay about working as caretaker of one of Robert Frost’s homes.>
Read Jim’s “My Turn” piece for Newsweek, about having twenty part-time jobs in one year.>
Read Jim’s Poetry International essay on the revolutions of 1989 and the poet Zbigniew Herbert.
David Hinton's Hunger Mountain: A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape
Mark Doty and Anne Carson as Poet-Essayists
Ruth Stone and the Riddle of the World
Stanley Plumly's Quiet Magnificence
Ecstatic Heartbreak: C. D. Wright
Poetry's Voice and Human Solidarity: Robert Pinsky
Among the Birds: Levertov and Nathan
The Last Words of W. G. Sebald
Mary Oliver, Why I Wake Early: New Poems