25 December 2007 - 14:24James Ragan The Hunger Wall

James Ragan reading “The Hunger Wall” from Rattapallax 5.

James Ragan is the author of five books of poetry including In The Talking Hours, Womb-Weary, The World Sholdering “I”, The Hunger Wall and Lusions, from Grove Press, as well as co-editor of Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Collected Poems. Director of the Graduate Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California, he is a former NEA grant recipient and Fulbright Professor of Poetry. He has read his poetry for four heads of state including Mikhail Gorbachev and Vaclav Havel and is featured in Rhino Records, In Thier Own Voices. He is a contributing editor to Rattapallax.