Jim Richards

JIM RICHARDS {[email protected]} completed a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing at the University of Houston in 2003, and has since taught at BYU-Idaho. His poems have appeared in The Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, the Texas Review, Contemporary American Voices, and in the anthology Fire in the Pasture.

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Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 4

Jim asked me, encouraged me, even begged me
not to do it. You’re surrounded by seedy lies,
he said, don’t sew them into your breasts. Did he worry
it would reflect badly on him? I don’t know,

Sixth-Grade Broadway Revue

Articles/Essays – Volume 45, No. 4

Reb Tevye is in the shower singing
“If I Were a Rich Man.” He’s eleven,
my son, and suddenly in love
with Broadway music because Mrs. Hale,
whom he affectionately calls
The Bomb, has inspired him. This little football player