A Reading at the Gadsden Public Library
Part 2: York reads from “At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” and “Substantiation”
Part 3: York reads from “At Sun Ra’s Grave” and “Walt Whitman in Alabama”
Text of Poems Referenced
“In the Magic City,” “From A Field Guide to Etowah County,” “The Crowd He Becomes,”
“At Liberty (1961),” “At Liberty (1964),” “Substantiation,” “At Sun Ra’s Grave,” and
“Walt Whitman in Alabama.”
About Jake Adam York
Raised near Gadsden in northeast Alabama by his steelworker father and his mother, a history teacher, Jake Adam York studied architecture and English at Auburn University. He received an M.F.A. in creative writing and English literature from Cornell University. He is currently an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado, Denver, where he directs the creative writing program. York has published two books of poetry, Murder Ballads (2005), and A Murmuration of Starlings (2008), and his poems have appeared in various journals, including Blackbird, Diagram, Greensboro Review, Gulf Coast, H_NGM_N, New Orleans Review, Shenandoah, and Southern Review.