Judon Mitcham

Judson Mitcham's This April Day was published in 2002. His first collection of poems,Somewhere in Ecclesiastes, won the Devins Award and was published in 1991 by the University of Missouri Press. His work has appeared in many literary journals, including The Georgia Review, Poetry, andHarper's. His novel, The Sweet Everlasting, was published in 1996 by the University of Georgia Press. It won the Townsend Prize and was a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Award. Mitcham is an associate professor of psychology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Fort Valley State University. He has also taught creative writing at the University of Georgia, Emory University, and Mercer University. He lives in Macon, Georgia, with his wife, Jean, and they have two children, Zach and Anna.

THIS APRIL DAY
BY JUDSON MITCHAM
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Judson Mitcham is, to use his own fine phrase, a "comedian of innocence." And in his new book he shows himself to be a comedian of experience as well. I can't think of a poet in America today who is writing more movingly or with a greater depth of humor. His poems can inspire tears or laughter. Often both. --Mark Jarman

[About Somewhere in Ecclesiastes, also by Judson Mitcham:] Judson Mitcham is a find. A psychologist in rural Georgia, he has emerged as one of the most original and genuine voices in recent American poetry. His language is a slow music, a dance that pulls us out of our chairs and into his world, which is also our world, its sadness and beauty moving us to notice, with him, the details of lives that tell us who we are and were, and what we might become. -- Susan Ludvigson

[About Judson Mitcham's novel, The Sweet Everlasting:] A masterpiece ... one of the best books of fiction I have ever read. Scene after scene of stunning precision and clarity. The straight and simple voice of this novel can break your heart. -- Fred Chappell

[More about The Sweet Everlasting:] Scene after scene of stunning precision and clarity. The straight and simple voice of this novel can break your heart. -- The Boston Globe