James Tipton
James Tipton lives in Ajijic, Mexico, on the shores of Lake Chapala, where he writes poetry and enjoys village life. His work is widely published, including credits in The Nation, South Dakota Review, Southern Humanities Review, The Greensboro Review, Esquire, Field, and American Literary Review. He is also included in various anthologies and other works, most recently Aphrodite, by Isabel Allende (1998), Bleeding Hearts, edited by Michelle Lovric (1998), The Geography of Hope, edited by David J. Rothman (1998), and The Intimate Kiss, edited by Wendy Maltz (2001), Charity, edited by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer (Red Rock Press, 2002), Hope, edited by Sophie Elise Lalazarian (Red Rock Press, 2003), Haiku: A Poets Guide, edited by Lee Gurga (Modern Haiku Press, 2003), Readings for Weddings, edited by Mark Oakley, Vicar of St. Pauls (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 2004), and Erotic Haiku, edited by Hiroaki Sato (IBC, 2004).
A collection of poems, Letters from a Stranger, with a Foreword by Isabel Allende (Conundrum Press, 1998), won the 1999 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. His most recent collections of poems are Proposing to the Woman in the Rear View Mirror (www.themetpress.com, 2008), Washing Dishes in the Ancient Village/Lavando platos en el antiguo pueblo (Ediciones del Lago, 2009), and All the Horses of Heaven/Todos los Caballos del Paraíso (www.themetpress.com, 2009)
He is currently working on a new collection of poetry in the ecstatic tradition titled To Love for a Thousand Years and a collection of short stories about expatriates in Mexico titled Three Tamales for the Señor.
Mr. Tipton is a popular speaker and reader at conferences and workshops. In addition to workshops on writing, he also offers workshops on a variety of spiritual topics.
Current Articles by James Tipton
WOW – Women On Writing Interview
Pilgrim Cafe 
January 29, 2011 at 9:40 pm
Jim: “All I Know is I Built this House” is beautiful—a wonderful paean to the process by which we build our lives, momlent by moment.
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February 2, 2011 at 1:12 pm
I hear this. I have been dealing with letting go of the dream associated with my house. I have thought about the association with laying the stones for the next part of my life. I have had to spiritualize that next step and disentangle myself with the bricks and mortar. Is hard. Comes us so many places. Was at the new Community Center on the other end of the block on which the house sits. I began feeling myself grieving the loss of a house so close to this new energy in Fruita. I have, however, had great energy in my JHS (journey of the human spirit) in recent months. Thanks for the metaphor.
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