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Jake Adam York
Jeanie Thompson,
executive director of the Alabama
Writers’ Forum. interviews Jake
Adam York, featured poet at the 6th
Annual Alabama Book Festival. Thompson talks
with York about his “open project” of poems
memorializing murdered civil rights workers,
inspired when he visited the newly installed
Civil Rights Memorial at the Southern Poverty
Law Center in Montgomery. His multi-book
sequence began in his collection Murder
Ballads,
winner of the 2005 Elixir Press Prize in Poetry,
continues in A Murmuration of Starlings (2008),
which won the 2009 Colorado Book Award in
Poetry, and extends into his most recent work, Persons
Unknown (2010). Originally from Alabama, York is Associate Professor of English
and Director of Creative Writing at the
University of Colorado Denver, where he co-edits
Copper
Nickel. This year he is Visiting Faculty
Fellow at Emory University’s James
Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced
Interdisciplinary Study, where he will work
on a book about contemporary art and the Civil
Rights Movement. This special radio series will air every Sunday at 5:00 P.M. - 5:30 P.M., on the Troy University Public Radio Network at:
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