James Bertolino's poetry has received national and regional recognition through a Book-of-the-Month Club Poetry Fellowship, the Discovery Award, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, two of Princeton University's Quarterly Review of Literature book publication awards, and the Jeanne Lohmann Poetry Prize for Washington State Poets. He's published fourteen full-length collections, numerous chapbooks, and recently had a poem selected by Ted Kooser, for his nationally distributed American Life in Poetry column. Bertolino's poem, "A Wedding Toast," has been read aloud for hundreds of weddings around the world.

Other poems by James Bertolino in Verse Daily:
September 4, 2014:   "Our Orcas Hours" "The woman I love reaches...."
August 17, 2012:   "Sprung Dualities" "A persistence of wasps...."

Books by James Bertolino:

Other poems on the web by James Bertolino:
Two Poems
"A Wedding Toast"
"Whatcom Creek"
"Waves Again"
"The Toast"
Making Space For Our Living

James Bertolino's Website.

About Sun Rising Into Storm:

"Just as the bright rising sun can enter the darkness of a storm, these poems shine close devotion's light on mystery, enigma, on any talisman cherished for meaning. Bertolino finds an object, a moment, a rich confusion and makes it useful, revelatory, and intimate. Read this book to savor his generous mind embracing the disparate offerings of daily life, and to find in your own circumference of attention a chance for small and precious miracles."
—Kim Stafford

"Replete with James Bertolino's signature dazzle and scope, Sun Rising into Storm gives us poems on the move, poems making their contribution to 'the great wave of being, ' poems in which 'the life-bearing water always // finds its way.' Bertolino's work makes its way to our very core. Keeping company with him in these pages, we find that 'Columbine and rain, azalea /and sunrise, / the world reaches / with two hands, two wings' to welcome us into its embrace."
—Paulann Petersen

"Bertolino's new collection is a luminous offering of meditations and reflections. In Sun Rising into Storm, we discover that ordinary life, when observed through the lens of an exceptional poet, is filled with the radiance and tumult of dawn emerging to dispel the darkness of ominous skies. Masterfully wrought, these poems impart Bertolino's thoughts with an intimacy and generosity that gives the effect of being caught eavesdropping on his mind, only to be graciously invited in to listen."
—Rena Priest