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Jim Weaver McKown Barnes (born December 22, 1933) is an American writer who was born nearSummerfield, Oklahoma (inLeFlore County). He received his BA from Southeastern State University and his MA and Ph.D. from theUniversity of Arkansas. He taught atTruman State University from 1970 to 2003, where he was Professor of Comparative Literature and Writer-in-Residence. After retiring from Truman State, he was Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing atBrigham Young University until 2006. On January 15, 2009, Barnes was namedOklahoma Poet Laureate for 2009–2010. He describes his ancestry as "an eighth Choctaw" and "a quarter Welsh".[1]
Barnes is the founding editor of theChariton Review Press, editor ofThe Chariton Review from 1975 through 2007, and contributing editor to thePushcart Prize. He has published over 500 poems in more than 100 journals, and numerous translations. He has sat on severalNational Endowment for the Arts committees and is Poetry Editor for the Truman State University Press and first-round judge for theT. S. Eliot Prize. Barnes has given scores of readings at college and university campuses, and his work is widely anthologized.
Barnes received a National Endowment for the ArtsCreative Writing Fellowship in 1978 and theColumbia University Translation Award for his translation ofDagmar Nick's [de]Zeugnis und Zeichen (Summons and Signs) in 1980. In 1989, he was awarded the St. Louis Poetry Center'sStanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Award; and, in 1990, he was awarded by the Rockefeller Foundation aBellagio Residency Fellowship for the purpose of beginning his translations of Dagmar Nick's poetry. He held a secondBellagio Residency Fellowship in 2003. In 1992 he was aDistinguished Writer-in-Residence for the University of Maryland Far East Division. In 1993 Barnes received theOklahoma Book Award forThe Sawdust War, and he was awarded aSenior Fulbright Fellowship to Switzerland in 1993–94. In 1998,On Native Ground: Memoirs and Impressions was named a finalist for theOklahoma Book Award in non-fiction and also in the poetry category forParis. In 2007 his poem on the enigma of Weldon Kees' disappearance in The Iowa Review received the Tim McGinnis Prize.
Barnes has been theFeatured Poet at theParis Writers Workshop and at the 13th Franco-Anglais Poetry Translation Festival. In 1995 he was theMunich Translator-in-Residence at Villa Walberta, Germany. In 1996 and 2001 he held twoCarmargo Foundation Fellowships in Cassis, France, and also in 1996 was the U.S. Representative at the Prague Writer's Festival. In 1998 and in 2000, Jim was awardedAcademie Schloß Solitude Fellowships in Stuttgart, Germany and received anAmerican Book Award forOn Native Ground. In 2002, he was a finalist for theOklahoma Book Award in the Poetry category forOn a Wing of the Sun.
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