Signs of Life
/Jim Ross
Jim Ross jumped into creative pursuits in 2015 after leaving a rewarding career in public health research. With a graduate degree from Howard University, since retiring he's published nonfiction, poetry, and photography in roughly 150 journals and anthologies on four continents. Publications include Bombay Gin, Columbia Journal, Ilanot Review, Lunch Ticket, The Atlantic, The Manchester Review, and Typehouse. He’s recently published photo essays in Barren, Kestrel, Litro, New World Writing, So It Goes, and Wordpeace. “Signs of Life” is Jim’s first published “visual poem,” but he’s trying to push the boundaries of what qualifies as a “visual poem.” Jim and his wife—parents of two health professionals on the front lines and grandparents of five preschoolers—split their time between city and mountains.
