Sample Works
Click on the links below to read Kimberly Johnson’s work online:
“Voluptuary” (National Endowment for the Arts Writers’ Corner)
“Ode on My Episiotomy” (poets.org)
“Charlie” (The Missouri Review)
“Easter, Looking Westward” (Verse Daily)
“The Doctrine of Signatures” (Iowa Writes: The Daily Palette)
“Richard Crashaw’s Indigestible Poetics” (Modern Philology)
The Complete Sermons of John Donne (edited by Kimberly Johnson)
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
Virgil's Georgics: 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)
"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)