James Thomas Fields, poet, editor, and publisher, was born the son of a ship's captain at Portsmouth, New Hampshire. His father died when he was two and he and his younger brother George were raised by their mother. From an early age, Fields read...

James T. Fields was the preeminent publisher of American and British literature in the United States at a time when Boston proclaimed itself capital of literary culture in the nation, and American writing was beginning to achieve a wider readership...

Koll, Thomas James Sunday, June 17, 2001 Koll, Thomas James Thomas J. Koll, our beloved father, grandfather, husband and brother, went peacefully into the arms of our Lord on Tuesday, May 22, 2001 at the age of 77. Tom will be remembered...

Thomas James (1946-1974) published one collection of poems in his lifetime. Letters to a Stranger (1973) is a book of dark intensities and deeply felt connections, both haunted and haunting, at once brooding, sensual and lucid. Its poems are shapely and well fashioned, as...