James Vincent Cunningham

James Vincent Cunningham

Poet, critic, and editor J.V. Cunningham was highly regarded for his concise, witty, epigrammatic poetry. He was born to Irish parents in Cumberland, Maryland, and he grew up in Montana. Cunningham studied at Stanford University, where he earned an BA in 1934 and a PhD in 1945. He taught at the University of Chicago, the University of Hawaii, Harvard University, the University of Virginia, Washington University, and, starting in 1953, at Brandeis University, where he worked until his retirement in 1980. Cunningham is the author of the poetry collections The Poems of J.V. Cunningham (1997), Let Thy Words Be Few (1986), Some Salt: Poems and Epigrams (1967), The Exclusions of a Rhyme (1960), Trivial, Vulgar, and Exalted: Epigrams (1957) and The Helmsman (1942). He also published the essay collections The Collected Essays of J.V. Cunningham (1976) and Tradition and Poetic Structure (1960). Cunningham received fellowships from the Academy of American Poets and the Guggenheim Foundation, in addition to grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

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