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| death_place = Denver, Colorado, U.S.
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| occupation = Poet, professor, editor
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| alma_mater = BA, Auburn University, MFA, Ph.D. Cornell University
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Jake Adam York (August 10, 1972December 16, 2012) was an American poet. He published three books of poetry before his death: ''Murder Ballads'', which won the 2005 Elixir Prize in Poetry; ''A Murmuration of Starlings'', which won the 2008 Colorado Book Award in Poetry; and ''Persons Unknown,'' an editor's selection in the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry. A fourth book, ''Abide'', was released posthumously, in 2014. That same year he was also named a posthumous recipient of the Witter Bynner Fellowship by the U.S. Poet Laureate.