Kimberly Johnson
Kimberly Johnson (born 1971) is an American poet and Renaissance scholar.
Life[edit]
Johnson was raised in Utah. She earned her MA in 1995 from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, her MFA in 1997 Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a PhD in 2003 from University of California, Berkeley.[1][2]
She teaches courses in creative writing and Renaissance literature at Brigham Young University (BYU). Johnson's academic interests include lyric poetry, John Milton, and John Donne.[3]
Her work has appeared in The New Yorker,[4] Slate,[5][6] The Iowa Review, 32 Poems,[7] The Yale Review, and The Best American Poetry 2020, and her translations from Latin and Greek have been published in literary and academic journals. She has also published a scholarly examination of 17th-century poetry as well as a number of scholarly articles on seventeenth-century literature.
She has edited several collections of essays on Renaissance literature, and an online archive of John Donne's complete sermons.[8]
She was married to poet Jay Hopler until his death in June 2022.[1]
Awards[edit]
In 2005, she was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the completion of her second collection, A Metaphorical God.[9] In 2011, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[1]
She has received two AML Awards for her books Leviathan with a Hook in 2002 and Fatal in 2022. She was a finalist in 2014 for Uncommon Prayer and Made Flesh.
Books[edit]
Poetry[edit]
- Leviathan with a Hook, Persea Books, 2002, ISBN 978-0-89255-282-5
- A Metaphorical God, Persea Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0-89255-342-6
- Uncommon Prayer, Persea Books, 2014, ISBN 978-0-89255-447-8
- Fatal, Persea Books, 2022, ISBN 978-0-89255-559-8
Criticism[edit]
- Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-81224-588-2
Translations[edit]
- Virgil, Georgics, Penguin Classics, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84614-240-6[10]
- Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, Northwestern University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8101-3487-4[11]
As editor[edit]
- Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry, Yale University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-30017-520-2
- Divisions on a Ground: Essays on Renaissance Literature in Honor of Donald M. Friedman, George Herbert Journal Special Series and Monographs, 2008, ISBN 978-1888112177
References[edit]
- ^ a b c Ben Fulton (May 12, 2011). "Line by line, Utah poet garners a Guggenheim". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved May 14, 2011.
- ^ "BYU professor-poet receives Guggenheim fellowship". Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-03-10. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Crepuscular". The New Yorker. 26 December 2010.
- ^ "Marking the Lambs" Slate, Nov. 2006
- ^ "Catapult", Slate, March 15, 2011
- ^ "Kimberly Johnson: Sonnet". www.32poems.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-06.
- ^ John Donne's Complete Sermons
- ^ "NEA Writers' Corner: Kimberly Johnson". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-05-12.
- ^ Boyd Tonkin (5 January 2010). "Georgics, By Virgil, translated by Kimberly Johnson". The Independent. Retrieved 10 May 2011.
- ^ "Theogony and Works and Days: A New Bilingual Edition, Translated from the Greek by Kimberly Johnson".
External links[edit]
- Author's website
- "A Metaphorical God with Poet Kimberly Johnson", Thinking Aloud, Marcus Smith, 9/29/2008
- "Poetry: Kimberly Johnson", Hammer Readings, 5/14/09
- "Kimberly Johnson", Verse Daily
- "A Metaphorical God", Persea Books
- "Leviathan with a Hook", Persea Books
- "The Georgics", Penguin Classics Catalogue
- Readings
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