James Schwartz is a poet and slam performer striving for the simplicity of Cavafy mixed with modern gay wordplay and elements. Schwartz's poetry / slam material dialogues of GLBTQ issues and affirmations of gay (night) life and love. He was born 2.19.78 and raised in the Old Order Amish community in SW MI.

James is the author of several poetry chapbooks including The Scarlet Band and Other Poems (2005). Schwartz's poetry publications include Poetry Life and Times (UK), Michiana's Rainbow Gazette (P-FLAG), Outside the Lines (Australia), Babel: The Multilingual, Multicultural Online Journal, The New Verse News, Queer Magazine Online, Caper Journal, LGBT Asylum News, POEM2DAY, Poems for Living Waters, Love's Chance Magazine, All Poetry is Prayer anthology, and Men Shall Know Nothing of This: a Space to Think (UK).

As a slam performer Schwartz has read at The Meta Cafe, This is Fire! The Zoo Bar, and the St. Joseph County MI. Democrats' Inauguration Day party of President Barack Obama. His first book, The Literary Party: Growing Up Gay and Amish in America, was published by inGroup Press in 2011.

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