Joel Brouwer (born 1968) is an American poet, professor and critic. His most recent poetry collection is Off Message released in 2016^[1]

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,^[2] Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Progressive, and other venues. His essays have been published in literary journals including AGNI,^[3] 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,^[4] Poetry, The Prose Poem, and Tin House.^[5]

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. ^[5][6]

• Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing Fellowship
• 1999 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 2001 Whiting Award^[6]
• 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

• Off Message (New York: Four Way Books, 2016)
• And So (New York: Four Way Books, 2009)
• Centuries (New York: Four Way Books, 2003)
• Exactly What Happened (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1999)

Chapbooks

• Flag Factory (New York: Artichoke Yink Press, 2008)
• Snow (New York: Salamandra Editions, 2008)
• Lt. Shrapnel (New York: Artichoke Yink Press, 2002)
• Think of It This Way (Tuscaloosa, Alabama: Fameorshame Press, 2000)
• This Just In (Los Angeles: Beyond Baroque Books, 1998)

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• The Poetry Foundation > Joel Brouwer
• AUDIO: The Cortland Review > Issue 18, November 2001 > Aesthetics by Joel Brouwer
• Four Way Books > Author Page > Joel Brouwer
• POEMS: http://www.thebluemoon.com/poetry/jbrouwer.shtml The Blue Moon Review > Two Poems by Joel Brouwer
• REVIEW BY BROUWER: The Washington Post > Arts & Living > Books > WHITE HEAT: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson By Brenda Wineapple > Reviewed by Joel Brouwer > August 3, 2008
• REVIEW OF BROUWER: WebdelSol > from Double Room Issue #3, Fall/Winter 2003 > Review by Robert Strong of Centuries by Joel Brouwer