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Kimberly Johnson

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Kimberly Johnson (born 1971) is an American poet and Renaissance scholar.

Life

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Johnson was raised in 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 in The New Yorker,[4] Slate,[5][6] The Iowa Review, 32 Poems,[7] The Yale Review, and The Best American Poetry 2020, and her translations from Latin and Greek have been published in literary and academic journals. She has also published a scholarly examination of 17th-century poetry as well as a number of scholarly articles on seventeenth-century literature.

She has edited several collections of essays on Renaissance literature, and an online archive of John Donne's complete sermons.[8]

She was married to poet Jay Hopler until his death in June 2022.[1]

Awards

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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]

She has received two AML Awards for her books Leviathan with a Hook in 2002 and Fatal in 2022. She was a finalist in 2014 for Uncommon Prayer and Made Flesh.

Books

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Poetry

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  • Leviathan with a Hook, Persea Books, 2002, ISBN 978-0-89255-282-5
  • A Metaphorical God, Persea Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0-89255-342-6
  • Uncommon Prayer, Persea Books, 2014, ISBN 978-0-89255-447-8
  • Fatal, Persea Books, 2022, ISBN 978-0-89255-559-8

Criticism

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  • Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-81224-588-2

Translations

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As editor

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References

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  1. ^ a b c Ben Fulton (May 12, 2011). "Line by line, Utah poet garners a Guggenheim". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
  2. ^ "BYU professor-poet receives Guggenheim fellowship". Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-03-10. Retrieved 2011-05-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ "Crepuscular". The New Yorker. 26 December 2010.
  5. ^ "Marking the Lambs" Slate, Nov. 2006
  6. ^ "Catapult", Slate, March 15, 2011
  7. ^ "Kimberly Johnson: Sonnet". www.32poems.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-06.
  8. ^ John Donne's Complete Sermons
  9. ^ "NEA Writers' Corner: Kimberly Johnson". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
  10. ^ Boyd Tonkin (5 January 2010). "Georgics, By Virgil, translated by Kimberly Johnson". The Independent. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
  11. ^ "Theogony and Works and Days: A New Bilingual Edition, Translated from the Greek by Kimberly Johnson".
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Readings