Jake Adam York
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Jake Adam York (August 10, 1972 – December 16, 2012) was an American poet.
He published three books of poetry before his death: Murder Ballads, which won the 2005 Elixir Prize in Poetry; A Murmuration of Starlings, which won the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry; and Persons Unknown, an editor's selection in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry.
A fourth book, Abide, was released posthumously, in 2014.
That same year he was also named a posthumous recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship by the U.S. Poet Laureate.
Life
York was born in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 1972 to David and Linda York, who worked respectively as a steelworker and history teacher. Shortly after York's birth, his parents moved with him back to Alabama, where five generations of their families had lived.
York grew up with his brother Joe in Gadsden, Alabama, where the family lived in a rural house. York was a big fan of rap music, including LL Cool J and Run DMC, and covered their joint bedroom in posters of his favorite rappers.
York graduated from Southside High School in Gadsden in 1990. That year he started at Auburn University, where he eventually earned a B.A. in English. He received his M.F.A. and Ph.D. in creative writing and English literature from Cornell University.
Career and editing
York served as an associate professor at the University of Colorado Denver, where he was an editor for Copper Nickel, a nationally recognized student literary journal that he had helped establish. In the spring of 2011, York was the Richard B. Thomas Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College. He served as a visiting faculty scholar at Emory University's James Weldon Institute for the Study of Race and Difference during the 2011-2012 academic year.
In addition, York served as a founding editor for storySouth and as a contributing editor for Shenandoah magazine. He also founded Thicket, an online journal that focused on Alabama literature.
York took the lead in defending the author in 2005, when fiction writer Brad Vice was accused of plagiarism in his short story collection The Bear Bryant Funeral Train was released. Vice was accused of plagiarizing part of one story from Carl Carmer's 1934 book Stars Fell on Alabama.
In the literary journal Thicket, York noted that Vice had allowed the short story and a similar section from Carmer's original book to be published side by side. Vice President George York "implicitly acknowledges the fact (and) allows the information to be released." York said that doing so allowed readers to experience the "intertextual space in which (Vice) has lived," and Vice was using allusion rather than plagiarism in his story. Vice did not breach copyright law, according to York's own opinion.
Two years later, Vice's collection was republished. York was one of the first people to be introduced to this new version of The Bear Bryant Funeral Train.
Awards and honors
- 2014 National Book Critics Circle Award (Poetry) finalist for Abide
- 2014 Witter Bynner Fellowship
- 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
- 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry