Joel Brouwer (born 1968) is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is Off Message released in 2016[1]
Joel Brouwer | |
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Born | 1968 (age 55–56) Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Occupation | Poet |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Syracuse University Sarah Lawrence College |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Literary |
Institutions | University of Alabama |
He is also 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."
In addition to writing poetry, Brouwer also writes essays, and regularly reviews books for The New York Times Book Review,[2] Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Progressive, and other venues. His essays have been published in literary journals including AGNI,[3] 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,[4] Poetry, The Prose Poem, and Tin House.[5]
Brouwer was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1968, and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Syracuse University, and is a professor of English at the University of Alabama, and lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. [5][6]
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