Jim Daniels' "Short-Order Cook"
Jun 20, 2024•8 min
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Episode description
Today’s poem goes out to all the unsung heroes of the grease trap and the fry basket. Happy reading.
Jim Daniels is the author of numerous collections of poetry, most recently The Middle Ages (Red Mountain Press, 2018) and Street Calligraphy (Steel Toe Books, 2017). His third collection, Places/Everyone (University of Wisconsin Press, 1985), won the inaugural Brittingham Prize in Poetry in 1985. He lives in Pittsburgh and is the Thomas Stockham University Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University.
-bio via Academy of American Poets
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