JimMagill’s Profile

I am a widely published poet whose work has received, and continues to garner, some national attention. I am also a person with multiple physical disabilities who uses a power chair.
My writing is recognized by the "Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts Project Stream" (a Re-grant Program of the "Pennsylvania Council in the Arts"), the "National Arts & Disability Center"---- UCLA, University of Toledo, the "VSA arts" Artists Registry (an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts), and other entities. My Web Site's URL is given below which documents much of the previously provided. My Web Site also renders a writing sample, life accomplishments and awards, biographical information, etc. Also, given below are a number of active Internet links that serve to further delineate my writing's exposure.
ALSO, I have finished a 65 page manuscript of original, and previously unpublished, poetry titled "Reflections on the Human Condition." I am currently in the process of marketing my manuscript and I am looking rather hard for a potential publisher. I have always hoped that my poetry would somehow be a vehicle via which I could improve my general life circumstances and I still hold on to that dream.

----James Magill
Bloosmburg, PA

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INTERNET POSTINGS (6-16-09) - James W. Magill

1. Web Site: www.jamesmagill.com

2. The "Courage Center's Handiham System" (Ham Radio & technology for people with disabilities) has acknowledged the merit of my poetry manuscript titled "Reflections on the Human Condition." *Click on the following link to reference the aforementioned: http://www.handiham.org/node/100

3. "National Arts and Disability Center" (NADC). The NADC is a program of the Tarjan Center at the University of California, Los Angeles - Semel Institute. Its programs are supported by UCLA and federal, state and private grants and contracts: http://nadc.ucla.edu/webtour.cfm#liter *I am listed under: “Literary Arts,” Poets and Writers---James Magill.

4. University of Toledo (Disability Studies Program): http://www.utoledo.edu/as/disability/links.html *I am listed under: “Humanities,” Disabled Poet---James Magill.

5. Temple University (Disability Studies Program): http://disstud.blogspot.com/2005/02/disabled-poetpa-arts-council.html

6. "VSA arts" Artist Registry:” http://www.vsarts.org/ *Click on "Discover the VSA arts Artists Registry" in the right corner of the brought up web site, click on Literary Arts under Search by Discipline/Media, scroll down the page until you find my name, and then click on my name.
"VSA arts" is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1974 by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith. "VSA arts" is dedicated to the inclusion of people with disabilities into the arts at large. “VSA” arts” and the “John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” (Washington, D.C.) announced their formal affiliation effective 10/3/05.

7. “East Village Poetry:” http://www.eastvillagepoetry.com/poetsNEW.htm *Click on my name on the list of provided people.

8. "DisAbility News & Views Radio" P.O. Box 1077, Williamsville, NY 14231, Interviewed by the show's host Ms.Monica Moshenko on 11/2/05: http://www.disabilitynewsradio.com/past_shows_targeted.htm *Scroll down the page until you find the guests appearing on 11/2/05.

9. "River Poets" (Bloomsburg, PA): www.riverpoets.com *Click on the word "Links" on the brought up page.

10. "PA Poetry" (Lewisburg, PA): http://papoetry.blogspot.com/2008/01/james-harms-bucknell-12208.html *Click on my name on the list of poets, in the right hand corner, of the brought up page.

11. "HAP 2008 Online Literary Magazine:" http://hap2008magazine.googlepages.com/tableofcontents *Click on my name, in the
upper right corner, of the brought up web site.

12. "Another Way Online:" http://www.anotherwayonline.com/FOR/ *Click on my name on the brought up page.

13. "Webby Talents:" Two Videos of mine: "Where From" and it can be accessed at the following URL: http://www.webbytalents.com/play.php?vid=612 "Where From" deals with my creative process.
Another video that I have posted on "Webby Talents" is titled "Standing Tall," and it can be accessed at the following URL: http://www.webbytalents.com/play.php?vid=616 "Standing Tall" provides a video/graphic/audio presentation of my poem "Standing Tall."

14. Shadowgraphs (Boston Area): http://www.shadowgraphs.net/JamesMagill.html

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SO IT GOES

If I could only get near that paradise bridge
Anyone could safely bet,
That I would find it easy
To rearrange the inevitable sunset.

And even if I had the defensive heart
Of a stone gunfighter,
I'd gladly trade those ways
For some clearer days and some times that were lighter.

Yet, still like most, I'll probably spend
An extended part of my designated time,
Somewhere between the pain of the trial
And the thought of the crime.~

~Jim Magill Poems (c) James Magill. All Rights Reserved. "So It Goes" has been previously published on a First Rights Basis.

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