Jake Adam York | |
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 York reading one of his poems in March 2007 | |
| Born | August 10, 1972 West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S. |
| Died | December 16, 2012 (aged 40) Denver, Colorado, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, professor, editor |
| Alma mater | BA, Auburn University, MFA, Ph.D. Cornell University |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Notable awards | Elixir Prize in Poetry 2005 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition Awards 2007 Colorado Book Award 2008 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship 2012 Witter Bynner Fellowship 2014 |
| Spouse | Sarah Skeen |
| Website | |
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Jake Adam York (August 10, 1972 – December 16, 2012) was an American poet. He published three books of poetry before his death: Murder Ballads, which won the 2005 Elixir Prize in Poetry; A Murmuration of Starlings, which won the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry; and Persons Unknown, an editor's selection in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. A fourth book, Abide, was released posthumously, in 2014. That same year he was also named a posthumous recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship by the U.S. Poet Laureate.