Joel Brouwer

{{Short description|American poet, professor and critic (born 1968)}}

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Sarah Lawrence College

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Joel Brouwer (born 1968) is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is Off Message released in 2016{{Cite web |last=Foundation |first=Poetry |date=2022-07-14 |title=Joel Brouwer |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joel-brouwer |access-date=2022-07-14 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}}

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,{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/books/review/Brouwer-t.html|title=Poetry Chronicle|first=Reviews by Joel|last=Brouwer|work=The New York Times |date=April 24, 2009|via=NYTimes.com}} Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Progressive, and other venues. His essays have been published in literary journals including AGNI,{{Cite web |url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/J/Joel-Brouwer.html |title=AGNI Online > Authors & Articles > Joel Brouwer |access-date=2009-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170617121413/http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/J/Joel-Brouwer.html |archive-date=2017-06-17 |url-status=dead }} 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,{{Cite web|url=http://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=203|title=Read by Author | Ploughshares|access-date=2010-01-13|archive-date=2016-03-05|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305161201/https://www.pshares.org/authors/author-detail.cfm?authorID=203|url-status=dead}} Poetry, The Prose Poem, and Tin House.{{Cite web |url=http://english.ua.edu/04_faculty_staff/faculty/brouwer_j.htm |title=University of Alabama > English Department Faculty > Joel Brouwer Bio |access-date=2009-06-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090525044752/http://english.ua.edu/04_faculty_staff/faculty/brouwer_j.htm |archive-date=2009-05-25 |url-status=dead }}

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. {{Cite web|url=http://www.fourwaybooks.com/books/brouwer/brouwer2_about.php|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101210222934/http://fourwaybooks.com/books/brouwer/brouwer2_about.php|url-status=dead|archive-date=December 10, 2010|title=Four Way Books > Author Page > Joel Brouwer}}