James Babbs

I still live and die a little each day in the same small town where I grew up.  I work for the government but don’t like to talk about it.  I like getting drunk and writing and sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference because both of them can be very intoxicating.  I know there’s more I should tell you but I just don’t have the time.

Some recent poems have appeared in my dreams and in-Abbey, Barbaric Yawp, Free Verse, Indite Circle, Main Street Rag and Zygote In My Coffee.

March 2005

Quiet Men Don't Talk To Horses About Progress Before The Shootings

May 2005

Every Month My Father Point Of View Dream #110

July 2005

Dream #115 I Guess I'll Never Know My Uncle Reminds Me Saturday Night(39)

October 2005

First Day of Summer Dream #120

January 2006 First Time What I Get For Asking When I Speak Your Name

July 2006 Culvers, Tuesday Evening Swimming

June 2008 I Used to Send Her Poems

October 2008

Rock n Roll Animal Telling Me About the Voices Better Than Yesterday

February 2010 Burger Shack, Almost Midnight I Saw A Hearse Going to the Zoo

January 2012 I Never Said I Love You to My Father 20 Miles from Home The Big One CNA Erin The New Year

Coming in 2012: DISTURBING THE LIGHT a full length trade paperback by JAMES BABBS from Interior Noise Press