JIM HABA is Poetry Director for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation. His poems, published in anthologies and literary magazines, have won both fellowships and prizes. He has read widely in the northeast region of the United States.

As the Dodge Foundation’s Poetry Director he has designed, organized, and produced all nine biennial Dodge Poetry Festivals, the largest poetry events in North America. He also designed and continues to direct the Dodge Poetry-in-the-Schools Program, which sends poets into New Jersey high schools and provides a variety of poetry-related experiences for New Jersey teachers at every level.

In addition to editing the best-selling book The Language of Life, which accompanied the 1995 Bill Moyers (8-hour) television series of the same name, he served as Poetry Consultant for this series and seventeen other PBS programs focusing on contemporary poetry. Most recently he was Poetry Consultant for Bill Moyers’ two 1999 series, Fooling With Words (2 hours) and Sounds of Poetry (4 ½ hours), both from the 1998 Dodge Poetry Festival.

In June 2003 he retired from Rowan University and a teaching career of more than 30 years.