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Jake Adam York is the author of Murder Ballads (2005), selected by Jane Satterfield for the Fifth Annual Elixir Press Awards Judge’s Prize, A Murmuration of Starlings, selected by Cathy Song for the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry (2008), and Persons Unknown, forthcoming as an Editor's Selection in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry (2010).

His poems have appeared in Shenandoah, Oxford American, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, New Orleans Review, Quarterly West, Diagram, Octopus, Southern Review, Poetry Daily, and other journals as well as in the anthologies Visiting Walt (Iowa University Press, 2003) and Digerati (Three Candles, 2006).

York is an associate professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Colorado Denver, where he ...more

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	A Murmuration of Starlings (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) 4.33 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Abide (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) 4.12 avg rating — 103 ratings — published 2014 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Murder Ballads 4.44 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Persons Unknown (Crab Orchard Series in Poetry) 4.52 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vinegar and Char: Verse from the Southern Foodways Alliance by Sandra Beasley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), John T. Edge (Foreword), W. Ralph Eubanks (Goodreads Author) (Foreword) 4.49 avg rating — 39 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cornbread Nation 7: The Best of Southern Food Writing by Francis Lam (Contributor), Daniel Patterson (Contributor), Susan Orlean (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.97 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2014 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume III: Contemporary Appalachia (2nd Edition): Contemporary Appalachia (Volume 3) by William Wright (Editor), J. Bruce Fuller (editor), Jesse Graves (Goodreads Author) (contributor) 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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even to think of you
afraid the thought would curl
would tangle & make you
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