James Bradley Wells has published one poetry collection, Bicycle (Sheep Meadow Press, 2013), and one poetry chapbook, The Kazantzakis Guide to Greece (Finishing Line Press, 2015). His poetry has appeared in New England Review, Western Humanities Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, and Stone Canoe, among other journals. Wells is the author of Pindar’s Verbal Art (Harvard University Press, 2009), a study of poetics and performance of Pindar’s (518-438 B.C.E.) victory songs for ancient Greek athletes. He has advance contracts for two poetry translations, The Sound of Honey: Pindar’s Victory Songs (Bloomsbury Academic) and The Need for Roots: Vergil’s Eclogues and Georgics (University of Wisconsin Press). Wells is an Associate Professor of Classical Studies at DePauw University and lives in Bloomington, Indiana.
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