At universities and in secondary schools, in the United States and in Asia, in administration and in the classroom, James Penha has had a forty-year career as an educator whose enthusiasm for learning and language inspires students and colleagues. His papers on teaching have been widely presented and published.
A native New Yorker, Penha has published hundreds of poems, stories, and articles throughout these same four decades. A collection of his adaptations of Indonesian folk tales from Indonesia, the island nation he has called home for the past eighteen years, has just won the Cervena Barva Press fiction chapbook contest and is being readied for a 2010 launch. No Bones to Carry, the award-wining volume of Penha’s poetry, is available at The Lost Bookshelf online bookstore or directly from New Sins Press. Penha edits The New Verse News, a website for current-events poetry.
James Penha's 2008 collection of poetry, No Bones to Carry, winner of the New Sins Press Poetry Contest, is still available at The Lost Bookshelf online bookstore.
"James Penha is able to mold exotic topics into poignant universal truths. Should I be called upon to speak at a funeral, I would choose to quote the first four lines of the evocative title poem, 'No Bones to Carry.'" --Virginia Howard, Editor, THEMA
"James Penha's imagination will whet your own. This book is a feast." --Louie Crew
"The poems in No Bones to Carry are nuanced and expansive, defining the individual's place in the larger world. Here, Penha reminds us of the limitations of our perception and the poet’s struggle to see beyond them." --Blas Falconer
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