Sample Works
Click on the links below to read Kimberly Johnson’s work online:
Poetry
“Voluptuary” (National Endowment for the Arts Writers’ Corner)
“Ode on My Episiotomy” (poets.org)
“A Nocturnal upon Saint Charles Yeager’s Day” (Plume)
“Ode on My Belly Button” (Yale Review)
“Charlie” (The Missouri Review)
“Easter, Looking Westward” (Verse Daily)
“Than longen folk to goon on pilgrimages ” (Verse Daily)
“The Doctrine of Signatures” (Iowa Writes: The Daily Palette)
Renaissance Literary Criticism
“Richard Crashaw’s Indigestible Poetics” (Modern Philology)
The Complete Sermons of John Donne (edited by Kimberly Johnson)
Translation
Selections from Virgil’s Georgics, Book 3 (The Diagram)
Selections from Virgil’s Georgics, Book 3 (Arch Literary Journal)
Selections from Virgil’s Georgics, Book 4 (Arch Literary Journal)
"Dazzling ... She writes with Milton open at her elbow but with the real dirt of a real Utah under her fingertips."
— The Yale Review
"It is a beautiful book, and an unusual one ... Its remarkable lucidity, its seductive energy, its lushness, and its music form a vision in which the real and the transcendental are indistinguishable."
— Mark Strand
A Poem of the Land
"Kimberly Johnson's superbly colourful, rhythmic and readable new translation...finds a way of feeding the Virgilian strain of English verse – from Milton to Wordsworth and beyond – back into her lines." — The Independent (UK)