Joel Brouwer

Joel Brouwer (born 1968) is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is And So (Four Way Books).

He is also the author of Exactly What Happened, which received the Larry Levis Prize from Virginia Commonwealth University, and Centuries, a National Book Critics Circle "Notable Book."

In addition to writing poetry, Brouwer also writes essays, and regularly reviews books for The New York Times Book Review,^[1] Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Progressive, and other venues. His essays have been published in literary journals including AGNI,^[2] Boston Review, Parnassus: Poetry in Review, and his poems in AGNI, The Cortland Review, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, The Journal, Massachusetts Review, Paris Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares,^[3] Poetry, The Prose Poem, and Tin House.^[4]

Brouwer was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1968, and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Syracuse University, and is a professor of English at the University of Alabama, and lives in Tuscaloosa.^[5][6]

Awards[]

• Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship
• 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 2001 Whiting Award^[7]
• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

Published works[]

• And So (New York: Four Way Books, 2009)
• Centuries (New York: Four Way Books, 2003)
• Exactly What Happened (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1999)

Chapbooks

• Flag Factory (New York: Artichoke Yink Press, 2008)
• Snow (New York: Salamandra Editions, 2008)
• Lt. Shrapnel (New York: Artichoke Yink Press, 2002)
• Think of It This Way (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Fameorshame Press, 2000)
• This Just In (Los Angeles: Beyond Baroque Books, 1998)

References[]

External links[]

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• The Poetry Foundation > Joel Brouwer
• AUDIO: The Cortland Review > Issue 18, November 2001 > Aesthetics by Joel Brouwer
• Four Way Books > Author Page > Joel Brouwer
• POEMS: http://www.thebluemoon.com/poetry/jbrouwer.shtml The Blue Moon Review > Two Poems by Joel Brouwer
• REVIEW BY BROUWER: The Washington Post > Arts & Living > Books > WHITE HEAT: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson By Brenda Wineapple > Reviewed by Joel Brouwer > August 3, 2008
• REVIEW OF BROUWER: WebdelSol > from Double Room Issue #3, Fall/Winter 2003 > Review by Robert Strong of Centuries by Joel Brouwer