Jake Adam York
goodreads author profile
url
http://www.goodreads.com/jakeadamyork
born
August 10, 1972
gender
male
place of birth
The United States
website
genre
Poetry, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction
member since
December 2007
about this author
Jake Adam York is the author of Murder Ballads (2005), selected by Jane Satterfield for the Fifth Annual Elixir Press Awards Judge’s Prize, and A Murmuration of Starlings, selected by Cathy Song for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry (2008).
His poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Oxford American, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, New Orleans Review, Quarterly West, Diagram, Octopus, Southern Review, Poetry Daily, and other journals as well as in the anthologies Visiting Walt (Iowa University Press, 2003) and Digerati (Three Candles, 2006).
York is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Colorado Denver, where he directs an undergraduate Creative Writing program and produces Copper Nic...more
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Murder Ballads by Jake Adam York (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.57 — 37 ratings — published 2005 |
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A Murmuration of Starlings (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Jake Adam York (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.55 — 33 ratings — published 2008 |
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The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry by Jake Adam York (Goodreads author) avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published 2004 |
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It Is Daylight (Yale Series of Younger Poets) by Arda Collins bookshelves: currently-reading |
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The Book of Props (Paperback) by Wayne Miller bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Poetry and the Fate of the Senses (Paperback) by Susan Stewart bookshelves: currently-reading |
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Archicembalo (Paperback) by G.C. Waldrep |
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The Batteries (Chapbook) by G.C. Waldrep |
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Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil (Paperback) by C.D. Wright |
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Poetics of Relation (Paperback) by Edouard Glissant |
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A Murmuration of Starlings (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) by Jake Adam York (Goodreads author) |
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"Recently named ***WINNER*** of the 2009 Colorado Book Award in Poetry.
See Ron Slate's review in Blackbird here: http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v7n2/nonfiction/slate_r/murmuration.htm " |
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The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Paperback) by Joshua Marie Wilkinson (Goodreads author) |
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Mixology (National Poetry Series) by Adrian Matejka |
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Eric Dolphy: A Musical Biography and Discography (Paperback) by Vladimir Simosko |
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"The discography/gigography/session index is invaluable, but I wanted to get more of a story from the book, which probably means I wasn't reading the book I needed to be reading. It's a good book to read, packed with lots of factual information.
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Get the Fuck Back into that Burning Plane (Chapbooks) by Lawrence Giffin |
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