Leland James was an International Publication Prize winner in the Atlanta Review's poetry competition, the winner of the Portland Pen Poetry Contest, the Writers' Forum Short Poem contest, and runners up for the Fish International and the Welsh Poetry Prizes. His work has placed in several other international competitions, including The South Carolina Review, New Millennium Writers, The Able Muse, Aesthetica Magazine, Morton Marr, and the Bridport Prize. He received the Franklin-Christoph Merit Award for Poetry in 2008. His work has appeared in publications in the US, Canada, England, Ireland,...