James McKean
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James McKean is the author of Home Stand: Growing Up in Sports (Michigan State University Press, 2005), Tree of Heaven (University of Iowa Press, 1995), and Headlong (University of Utah Press, 1987). His poetry has been published in former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser's column, "American Life in Poetry." He lives in Iowa City.