Joel Brouwer

Joel Brouwer (born 1968) is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is Off Message released in 2016.^[1]

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,^[2] Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Progressive, and other venues. His essays have been published in literary journals including AGNI,^[3] 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,^[4] Poetry, The Prose Poem, and Tin House.^[5]

Brouwer was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 1968, and is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and Syracuse University, and is a professor of English at the University of Alabama, and lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.^[5][6]