Kimberly Johnson
Template:Short description Kimberly Johnson (born 1971) is an American poet and Renaissance scholar.
Life
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
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]
Books
Poetry
- Leviathan with a Hook, Persea Books, 2002, Template:ISBN
- A Metaphorical God, Persea Books, 2008, Template:ISBN
- Uncommon Prayer, Persea Books, 2014, Template:ISBN
- Fatal, Persea Books, 2022, Template:ISBN
Criticism
- Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, Template:ISBN
Translations
- Virgil, Georgics, Penguin Classics, 2009, Template:ISBN[10]
- Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, Northwestern University Press, 2017. Template:ISBN[11]
As editor
- Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry, Yale University Press, 2013, Template:ISBN
- Divisions on a Ground: Essays on Renaissance Literature in Honor of Donald M. Friedman, George Herbert Journal Special Series and Monographs, 2008, Template:ISBN
References
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External links
- 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
- Pages with script errors
- 1971 births
- Johns Hopkins University alumni
- Brigham Young University faculty
- American women poets
- University of Iowa alumni
- University of California, Berkeley alumni
- Living people
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
- Writers from Salt Lake City
- Place of birth missing (living people)
- Translators of Virgil