A. Van Jordan
A. Van Jordan was born in Akron, Ohio, United States on March 5th, 1965 and is the American Poet. At the age of 59, A. Van Jordan biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Jordan is the author of four full-length collections. Rise (Tia Chucha Press, 2001) won the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award. M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A (2005), which was listed as one of the Best Books of 2005 by The Times (London); Quantum Lyrics (2007); and The Cineaste (W.W. Norton & Co., 2013). In 2013 he published a chapbook called The Homesteader, and in 2021, he published an ekphrastic chapbook, I Want to See My Skirt, in collaboration with filmmaker Cauleen Smith, based on photographs by Malian photographer Malick Sidibé. Both of his chapbooks were published by Unicorn Press, Greensboro, NC, and edited by Andrew Saulters.
Jordan taught at Warren Wilson College, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of Texas at Austin, where he was tenured as an Associate Professor, and as professor at the University of Michigan. In 2014, he became Rutgers University-Newark's first Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor, before returning to the University of Michigan in 2017, where he serves as the Robert Hayden Collegiate Professor of English Language & Literature. His academic interests include the writing of poetry, the history of poetry in English, and cinematic studies.
His work has appeared in Ploughshares, and Callaloo, among other publications.
- 2002: Whiting Award
- 2005: Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
- 2006: Pushcart Prize XXX
- 2007: Guggenheim Fellowship
- 2008: United States Artist Williams Fellowship
- 2015: Lannan Literary Award in Poetry