Poetic Obituaries: [Jake Adam] York, an associate professor at the

University of Colorado, Denver, was the author of three collections of poetry and a book of literary history. He had recently been named a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship in poetry for 2013.

York's most recent collection of poetry was 2010's "Persons Unknown." "A Murmuration of Starlings" was the winner of the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry; "Murder Ballads" was published in 2005.

from Los Angeles Times: Poet Jake Adam York, 40, has died
then Victoria Advocate: ABR reading series author Jake Adam York dies

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