Jake Adam York, Guest Blogger July 17-23

This week we welcome Jake Adam York as our guest blogger.  Jake  is the author of three books of poems—Murder Ballads (2005), winner of the 2005 Elixir Press Prize in Poetry, A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), winner of the 2009 Colorado Book Award in Poetry, andPersons Unknown (2010). His poems have appeared in Anti-, Blackbird, The Cincinnati Review, DIAGRAM, Diode, Greensboro Review, New South, Northwest Review, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Southern Spaces, Third Coast , and other journals. Originally from Alabama, York is now Associate Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at the University of Colorado Denver, where he co-edits Copper Nickel.

Welcome, Jake.

-- sdh