Poet and Author “In the beginning was the word…and the world” Featured In the Talking Hours (1979) Womb-Weary (1990) Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s Collected Poems (1990) The Hunger Wall (1995) Lusions (1997) Selected Tallinn Poems (2005) Too Long a Solitude (2009) The World Shouldering I (2013) The Chanter’s Reed (2020) Nothing Disappears (2022) To Sing Us Out of Silence (forthcoming) “James Ragan is one of the most brilliantly creative talents in American letters today, a rare combination of poet, playwright, and ambassador of the arts.” — Tony & Peabody Award winner, Jerome Lawrence “Writers often believe they can facilitate their own inspiration by sitting down to write, by willing the process to happen. Sometimes you begin with the insight, and sometimes you have to find it. You chase the poem until it catches you.”— James Ragan Other Creative WorkPaintings by James Ragan from 1960 - 1970