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Jay Hopler (November 23, 1970 – June 15, 2022)[1] was an American poet.
Jay Hopler | |
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| Born | November 23, 1970 San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Died | November 9, 2022 (aged 51) Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S. |
| Occupation | Poet, Professor of English |
| Education | Purdue University (PhD) Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA) Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars (MA) New York University (BA) |
Hopler was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He graduated from Purdue University (Ph.D., American Studies), the Iowa Writers’ Workshop (M.F.A., Creative Writing/Poetry), the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars (M.A., Creative Writing/Poetry) and New York University (B.A., English and American Literature).
His poetry, essays, and translations have appeared in numerous magazines and journals, including American Poetry Review, The Kenyon Review, Mid-American Review, The New Republic and The New Yorker.
Hopler was Professor of English (Creative Writing/Poetry) at the University of South Florida.[2]
Hopler was married to poet and Renaissance scholar Kimberly Johnson.[2][3]
On 15 June 2022, Hopler died in Salt Lake City, Utah, after a battle with prostate cancer.[4]
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- 2005 Yale Series of Younger Poets Award, for Green Squall, chosen by Louise Glück[5]
- 2006 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award for Green Squall
- 2006 Florida Book Award for Green Squall
- 2007 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, for Green Squall
- 2007 National “Best Books” Award from USA Book News for Green Squall
- 2009 Lannan Foundation Fellowship
- 2009 Whiting Award[6]
- 2010/2011 Rome Prize in Literature from the American Academy of Arts & Letters/The American Academy in Rome[7][8]
- 2014 National “Best Books” Award from USA Book News for Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry[9]
- 2016 Florida Book Award in Poetry (Gold Medal) for The Abridged History of Rainfall
- 2016 Finalist, National Book Award for Poetry for The Abridged History of Rainfall[10]
- 2023, Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2023 Finalist, Pulitzer Prize for "Still Life"
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- —— (2006). Green Squall. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300114546.
- —— (2016). The Abridged History of Rainfall. McSweeney's Poetry Series. ISBN 9781944211264.
- —— (2022). Still Life. McSweeney's. ISBN 9781952119378.
Anthologies
- Jay Hopler, ed. (1996). The Killing Spirit: An Anthology of Murder for Hire. Overlook Press. ISBN 9780879516611.
- Jay Hopler; Kimberly Johnson, eds. (2013). Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300175202.
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