Jake Adam York

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jake Adam York
Occupation	Poet
Date Of Birth	Aug 10, 1972(1972-08-10)
Age	52
Date Of Death	December 16, 2012, Denver, CO
Birthplace	Florida
Country	United States
Birth City	Florida
Horoscope	Leo

Jake Adam York Biography

Jake Adam York is one of the most popular and richest Celebrity who was born on August 10, 1972 in Florida, Florida, United States. Poet whose 2005 book of poetry, Murder Ballads, won the prestigious Elixir Prize in Poetry.

The US Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey , awarded him the Witter Bynner Fellowship.

Jake Adam York (August 10, 1972 – December 16, 2012) was an American poet. He published three books of poetry before his death: Murder Ballads, which won the 2005 Elixir Prize in Poetry; A Murmuration of Starlings, which won the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry; and Persons Unknown, an editor’s selection in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. A fourth book, Abide, was released posthumously, in 2014. That same year he was also named a posthumous recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship by the U.S. Poet Laureate.

York graduated from Southside High School in Gadsden in 1990. That year he started at Auburn University, where he eventually earned a B.A. in English. He received his M.F.A. and Ph.D. in creative writing and English literature from Cornell University.

His father was a steelworker and his mother was a history teacher.

Jake Adam York Net Worth

Jake Adam York is one of the richest Poet from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jake Adam York 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He first got turned on to poetry by listening to a lot of rap music while he was a teenager.

He received the Witter Bynner Fellowship after his death in 2014.

York was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 1972 to David and Linda York, who worked respectively as a steelworker and history teacher. Shortly after York’s birth, his parents moved with him back to Alabama, where five generations of their families had lived.

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York worked as an associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where he was an editor for Copper Nickel, a nationally recognized student literary journal which he had helped found. In the spring of 2011, York was the Richard B. Thomas Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College. During the 2011–2012 academic year, he was a visiting faculty scholar at Emory University’s James Weldon Johnson Institute for the Study of Race and Difference.

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a fierce, beautiful, necessary book. Fearless in their reckoning, these poems resurrect contested histories and show us that the past—with its troubled beauty, its erasures, and its violence—weighs upon us all . . . a murmuration so that we don’t forget, so that no one disappears into history.