Jake Adam York

American poet

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.

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