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Jake Adam York

Jake Adam York is the author of Persons Unknown (2010) and A Murmuration of
Starlings (2008), published in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, and Murder Ballads
(Elixir 2005). Recent work appears in New England Review, Pleiades, Literary Imagination, and Ninth Letter.

Poetry

Summer 2012

Cry of the Occasion

By Jake Adam York

John Earl Reese, shot while dancing in a café in Mayflower, Texas, October 22, 1955 so loud it fills the valleys of even the fingers smeared into a kind of […]

Fall 2012

Cry of the Occasion

By Jake Adam York

–John Earl Reese, shot while dancing in a café in Mayflower,Texas, October 22, 1955 so loud it fills the valleys of even the fingers smeared into a kind of quiet, […]

Jake Adam York

Jake Adam York is the author of Persons Unknown (2010) and A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), published in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry, and Murder Ballads (Elixir 2005). Recent […]