A. Van Jordan
A. Van Jordan (born 1965 Akron, Ohio) is an American poet.
Life
He graduated from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, 1987, with a BA. He graduated from Howard University, 1990, with an MA. He graduated from Warren Wilson College, 1998, with an MFA.[1] He lived in Washington, D.C.[2] from 1988 to 2002.
He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro,[3] the University of Texas at Austin, and Warren Wilson College, at the University of Michigan,[4] and he currently teaches at Rutgers University-Newark as the Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor.
His work has appeared in Ploughshares,[2] and Callaloo[5] amongst other publications.
Awards
- 2004 Whiting Award
- 2005 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
- 2006 Pushcart Prize, 30th Edition.
- 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship [6]
- 2008 United States Artist Williams Fellowship
- 2015 Lannan Literary Award in Poetry
Works
Poetry
- Rise (Tia Chucha Press, 2001)
- M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004)
- Quantum Lyrics (W. W. Norton & Company, 2007)
- The Cineaste (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013)
Essays
- "The Synchronicity of Scenes". Cortland Review. Winter 2007.
References
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-09-18. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-05-25. Retrieved 2009-09-12.
- ↑ http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/callaloo/v027/27.3jordan01.html
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-22. Retrieved 2010-03-09.
External links
- "A. Van Jordan's Poetry Suite M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A on NPR
- Interview with A. Van Jordan in Nat Creole Magazine, #8, April 2006
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- Audio: A. Van Jordan reads "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" from Quantum Lyrics
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