Joel Brouwer (born 1968) is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is ''Off Message'' released in 2016 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,'' ''Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Progressive,'' and other venues. His essays have been published in literary journals including ''AGNI,'' ''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, Poetry, The Prose Poem,'' and ''Tin House.'' Brouwer was born in

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, in 1968, and is a graduate of

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and

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, and is a professor of English at the

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, and lives in

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Awards

* Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship * 1999

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Fellowship * 2001 Whiting AwardFour Way Books > Author Page > Joel Brouwer
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Published works

* ''Off Message'' (New York:

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, 2016) * ''And So'' (New York:

, 2009) * ''Centuries'' (New York:

, 2003) * ''Exactly What Happened'' (West Lafayette, Indiana:

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, 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

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POEMS: http://www.thebluemoon.com/poetry/jbrouwer.shtml ''The Blue Moon Review'' > Two Poems by Joel Brouwer

* [http://www.webdelsol.com/Double_Room/issue_three/Joel_Brouwer.html REVIEW OF BROUWER: ''WebdelSol'' > from ''Double Room'' Issue #3, Fall/Winter 2003 > Review by Robert Strong of ''Centuries'' by Joel Brouwer] {{DEFAULTSORT:Brouwer, Joell 1968 births Living people Writers from Grand Rapids, Michigan American male poets Poets from Michigan Poets from Alabama Syracuse University alumni Sarah Lawrence College alumni University of Alabama faculty National Endowment for the Arts Fellows 21st-century American poets 21st-century American male writers