Kimberly Johnson
Kimberly Johnson (born 1971) is an American poet and Renaissance scholar.
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[edit] Life
Johnson was raised in West Jordan, Utah. She earned her MA in 1995 from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, her MFA in 1997 Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a PhD in 2003 from University of California, Berkeley.[1][2]
She teaches courses in creative writing and Renaissance literature at Brigham Young University (BYU). Johnson's academic interests include lyric poetry, John Milton, and John Donne. [3]
Her work has appeared recently in The New Yorker,[4] Slate,[5][6] The Iowa Review, 32 Poems,[7] and The Yale Review, and her translations from Latin and Greek have been published in literary and academic journals. She has also published a number of scholarly articles on seventeenth-century literature.
She has edited a collection of essays on Renaissance literature, and an online archive of John Donne's complete sermons.[8]
She is married to poet and essayist Jay Hopler.[1]
[edit] Awards
In 2005, she was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the completion of her second collection, A Metaphorical God.[9] In 2011, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[1]
[edit] Works
- Leviathan with a Hook, Persea Books, 2002, ISBN 9780892552825
- A Metaphorical God, Persea Books, 2008, ISBN 9780892553426
[edit] Translations
- "Barbarians of the North", Arch Literary Journal, Issue #2, Spring 2009
- "How to Steal Honey from Bees", Arch Literary Journal, Issue #2, Spring 2009
- Virgil Georgics, Penguin Classics, 2009, ISBN 9781846142406[10]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c Ben Fulton (May 12 2011). "Line by line, Utah poet garners a Guggenheim". The Salt Lake Tribune. http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment/51753425-81/johnson-poet-poetry-award.html.csp. Retrieved May 14 2011.
- ^ http://news.byu.edu/archive11-may-guggenheim.aspx
- ^ http://humanities.byu.edu/directory/kj264/
- ^ http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2011/01/03/110103po_poem_johnson
- ^ "Marking the Lambs" Slate, Nov. 2006
- ^ "Catapult", Slate, March 15, 2011
- ^ http://www.32poems.com/issues/kimberly-johnson-sonnet
- ^ John Donne's Complete Sermons
- ^ http://www.nea.gov/features/writers/writersCMS/writer.php?id=05_09
- ^ Boyd Tonkin (5 January 2010). "Georgics, By Virgil, translated by Kimberly Johnson". The Independent. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/georgics-by-virgil-translated-by-kimberly-johnson-1857698.html. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
[edit] External links
- Author's website
- "A Metaphorical God with Poet Kimberly Johnson", Thinking Aloud, Marcus Smith, 9/29/2008
- "Poetry: Kimberly Johnson", Hammer Readings, 5/14/09
- "Kimberly Johnson", Verse Daily
- "A Metaphorical God", Persea Books
- "Leviathan with a Hook", Persea Books
- "The Georgics", Penguin Classics Catalogue
- Readings
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