A. Van Jordan’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American poet
Is Poet 
From United States of America 
Type Literature 
Gender male
Birth 5 March 1965, Akron
Age: 55 years

A. Van Jordan (born 1965 Akron, Ohio) is an American poet.

Life

He graduated from Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, 1987, with a BA. He graduated from Howard University, 1990, with an MA. He graduated from Warren Wilson College, 1998, with an MFA. He lived in Washington, D.C. from 1988 to 2002.

He taught at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, the University of Texas at Austin, and Warren Wilson College, at the University of Michigan, and he currently teaches at Rutgers University-Newark as the Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor.

His work has appeared in Ploughshares, and Callaloo amongst other publications.

Awards

  • 2004 Whiting Award
  • 2005 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
  • 2006 Pushcart Prize, 30th Edition.
  • 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship
  • 2008 United States Artist Williams Fellowship
  • 2015 Lannan Literary Award in Poetry
  • “Archived copy”. Archived from the original on 2011-06-22. Retrieved 2010-03-09. 

Works

  • “Einstein Defining Special Relativity”; “Einstein Ruminates on Relativity”, Reading Between A&B

Poetry

  • Rise (Tia Chucha Press, 2001)
  • M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A (W. W. Norton & Company, 2004)
  • Quantum Lyrics (W. W. Norton & Company, 2007)
  • The Cineaste (W. W. Norton & Company, 2013)

Essays

  • “The Synchronicity of Scenes”. Cortland Review. Winter 2007. 
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