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A. Van Jordan

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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

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

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  2. ^ a b http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=6656
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  5. ^ http://muse.jhu.edu/login?uri=/journals/callaloo/v027/27.3jordan01.html
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