Joel Brouwer. Courtesy Whiting Awards.
Joel R. Brouwer (born 1968) is an American poet, academic, and literary critic.
Life[]
Brouwer was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Syracuse University.
He is a professor of English at the University of Alabama, and lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.[1][2]
In addition to writing poetry, Brouwer also writes essays, and regularly reviews books for The New York Times Book Review,[3] Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Progressive, and other venues. His essays have been published in literary journals including AGNI,[4] Boston Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and his poems in AGNI, The Cortland Review, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, The Journal, Massachusetts Review, Paris Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares,[5] Poetry, The Prose Poem, and Tin House.[6]
Recognition[]
He is the author of Exactly What Happened, which received the Larry Levis Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University, and Centuries, a National Book Critics Circle "Notable Book."
Awards[]
- Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 2001 - Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship [7]
- 2010 - Guggenheim Fellowship
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Exactly What Happened. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1999.
- Centuries: Prose poems. New York: Four Way Books, 2003.
- And So. Tribeca, NY: Four Way Books, 2009.
Chapbooks[]
- This Just In. Los Angeles: Beyond Baroque Books, 1998.
- Think of It This Way: Prose poems. Tuscaloosa, AL: FameorShame Press, 2000.
- Lt. Shrapnel: A poem. New York: Artichoke Yink Press, 2002.
- Hybrid Land (with Shin Yu Pai; with art by Sarah Parkel). Gordo, AL: Filter Press, 2011.
See also[]
Joel Brouwer
References[]
- ↑ University of Alabama > English Department Faculty > Joel Brouwer Bio
- ↑ Four Way Books > Author Page > Joel Brouwer
- ↑ The New York Times Sunday Book Review > Poetry Chronicle > Reviews by Joel Brouwer > April 24, 2009
- ↑ AGNI Online > Authors & Articles > Joel Brouwer
- ↑ http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=203
- ↑ University of Alabama > English Department Faculty > Joel Brouwer Bio
- ↑ Four Way Books > Author Page > Joel Brouwer
External links[]
- Poems
- Two Poems by Joel Brouwer, The Blue Moon Review
- Joel Brouwer at the Poetry Foundation.
- Prose
- REVIEW BY BROUWER: WHITE HEAT: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson By Brenda Wineapple, Reviewed by Joel Brouwer, The Washington Post > Arts Living > Books > August 3, 2008.
Audio / video
- Cortland Review > Issue 18, November 2001 > Aesthetics by Joel Brouwer (audio)
- Joel Brouwer at YouTube
- Books
- Joel Brouwer at Amazon.com
- About
- Four Way Books > Author Page > Joel Brouwer
- Joel Brouwer at the University of Alabama
- review by Robert Strong of Centuries by Joel Brouwer, from Double Room Issue #3, Fall/Winter 2003.
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