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Devin Johnston | |
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Born | Canton, New York, US | March 14, 1970
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Genres | Poetry, book review |
Subject | Modernism, pastoral traditions, ecology, contemporary American and British poetry, prosody |
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Devin Johnston (born 14 March 1970) is an American poet. He has authored several poetry collections Far-Fetched (2015), Sources (2008), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry, Aversions (2004), Mosses and Lichens (2019) and Telepathy (2001). His literary criticism and prose writing includes Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice (2002) and Creaturely and Other Essays (2009).
Born in Canton, New York and was raised in Winston-Salem, Johnston was trained and raised in North Carolina, US. He worked as the poetry editor for Chicago Review (1995–2000), and as an editor of "Flood Editions", a non-profit publishing house. As a lecturer, he teaches in Saint Louis University, Missouri.[1]