{"product_id":"muse","title":"Muse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLeland James\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of four books of poetry, three children’s books in verse, and a book on poetry craft. He has published more than two-hundred poems in poetry venues worldwide, including \u003cem\u003eThe Lyric, Form Quarterly, HQ, The Haiku Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eRattle, The South Carolina Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, New Millennium Writings, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe London Reader, The American Cowboy, Ruminate, and Nomos.\u003c\/em\u003e He was the winner of the UK’s \u003cem\u003eAesthetica Magazine \u003c\/em\u003eCreative Writing Award for Poetry, The Little Red Tree International Poetry Prize, the \u003cem\u003ePortland Pen\u003c\/em\u003e Poetry Prize, the \u003cem\u003eWriter’s Forum\u003c\/em\u003e short poem contest, a winner of an \u003cem\u003eAtlanta Review \u003c\/em\u003eInternational Publication Prize, and received the Franklin-Christoph Merit Award for Poetry. He was runners-up for the poetry prizes of the \u003cem\u003eSequestrum \u003c\/em\u003eEditor’s Reprint Awards, the Fish International Prize in Ireland, the Welsh International, \u003cem\u003eThe London Magazine, Writer’s Digest,\u003c\/em\u003e and the Society of Classical Poets. He has received honors in dozens of other competitions, including the Golden Quill Awards, the Bridport Prize, Morton Marr, \u003cem\u003eThe Southwest Review\u003c\/em\u003e. Leland has been featured in \u003cem\u003eTed Kooser's American Life in Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e and was recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLeland lives and writes in a cabin in the woods in northern Michigan. He cuts his own firewood and shovels a couple of hundred inches of snow each year. Delivering readings of his own and other’s poetry, he travels widely to libraries and schools. He is an outspoken proponent of meter, rhyme, and accessibility in poetry, as well as endorsing experimental and “free verse.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 77 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books\/Aldrich Press (September 2018)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026014814407,"sku":"hcb1787286868178","price":9.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0702\/7923\/3735\/files\/muse_1.jpg?v=1787286873","url":"https:\/\/nextstylefashion.shop\/products\/muse","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}