James Reiss (/riːs/ REESS; July 11, 1941 – December 2, 2016) was an American poet and novelist.
Reiss grew up in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City and in northern New Jersey.
[1] Reiss's poems have appeared in magazines that include The Atlantic, Esquire, The Nation, The New Republic, The New Yorker, Poetry, Slate, HuffPost, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
In 1977, he won first prize in New York’s Big Apple Bicentennial Poetry Contest.
He won four annual Zeitfunk awards for his reviewing between 2007 and 2010, from the Public Radio Exchange.