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Kimberly Johnson (born 1971) is an American poet and Renaissance scholar.

• Life

• Awards

• Books

• Poetry

• Criticism

• Translations

• As editor

• References

• External links

Johnson was raised in Utah. She earned her MA in 1995 from the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, her MFA in 1997 Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a PhD in 2003 from University of California, Berkeley.cite-ref-saltlaketribune-1-0[1]cite-ref-2[2]

She teaches courses in creative writing and Renaissance literature at Brigham Young University (BYU). Johnson's academic interests include lyric poetry, John Milton, and John Donne.cite-ref-3[3]

Her work has appeared in The New Yorker,cite-ref-4[4] Slate,cite-ref-5[5]cite-ref-6[6] The Iowa Review, 32 Poems,cite-ref-7[7] The Yale Review, and The Best American Poetry 2020, and her translations from Latin and Greek have been published in literary and academic journals. She has also published a scholarly examination of 17th-century poetry as well as a number of scholarly articles on seventeenth-century literature.

She has edited several collections of essays on Renaissance literature, and an online archive of John Donne's complete sermons.cite-ref-8[8]

She was married to poet Jay Hopler until his death in June 2022.cite-ref-saltlaketribune-1-1[1]

In 2005, she was awarded a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts to support the completion of her second collection, A Metaphorical God.cite-ref-9[9] In 2011, she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.cite-ref-saltlaketribune-1-2[1]

• Leviathan with a Hook, Persea Books, 2002, ISBN 978-0-89255-282-5

• A Metaphorical God, Persea Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0-89255-342-6

• Uncommon Prayer, Persea Books, 2014, ISBN 978-0-89255-447-8

• Fatal, Persea Books, 2022, ISBN 978-0-89255-559-8

• Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-81224-588-2

• Virgil, Georgics, Penguin Classics, 2009, ISBN 978-1-84614-240-6cite-ref-10[10]

• Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, Northwestern University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-0-8101-3487-4cite-ref-11[11]

• Before the Door of God: An Anthology of Devotional Poetry, Yale University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-30017-520-2

• Divisions on a Ground: Essays on Renaissance Literature in Honor of Donald M. Friedman, George Herbert Journal Special Series and Monographs, 2008, ISBN 978-1888112177

cite-note-saltlaketribune-11. ↑ citerefben-fulton2011Ben Fulton (May 12, 2011). "Line by line, Utah poet garners a Guggenheim". The Salt Lake Tribune. Retrieved May 14, 2011.

cite-note-22. ↑ "BYU professor-poet receives Guggenheim fellowship". Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2011-05-12.

cite-note-33. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-03-10. Retrieved 2011-05-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

cite-note-44. ↑ "Crepuscular". The New Yorker. 26 December 2010.

cite-note-55. ↑ "Marking the Lambs" Slate, Nov. 2006

cite-note-66. ↑ "Catapult", Slate, March 15, 2011

cite-note-77. ↑ "Kimberly Johnson: Sonnet". www.32poems.com. Archived from the original on 2009-02-06.

cite-note-88. ↑ John Donne's Complete Sermons

cite-note-99. ↑ "NEA Writers' Corner: Kimberly Johnson". Archived from the original on 2011-07-19. Retrieved 2011-05-12.

cite-note-1010. ↑ citerefboyd-tonkin2010Boyd Tonkin (5 January 2010). "Georgics, By Virgil, translated by Kimberly Johnson". The Independent. Retrieved 10 May 2011.

cite-note-1111. ↑ "Theogony and Works and Days: A New Bilingual Edition, Translated from the Greek by Kimberly Johnson".

• Author's website

• "A Metaphorical God with Poet Kimberly Johnson", Thinking Aloud, Marcus Smith, 9/29/2008

• "Poetry: Kimberly Johnson", Hammer Readings, 5/14/09

• "Kimberly Johnson", Verse Daily

• "A Metaphorical God", Persea Books

• "Leviathan with a Hook", Persea Books

• "The Georgics", Penguin Classics Catalogue

• http://jacket2.org/commentary/remaking-it-new