elaborate, forensically detailed hypothesis (supplemented in the book by a quasi-detective novella), that the poet Kenneth Koch may have been the hidden author of “A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island,” one of Frank O’Hara’s canonical poems, composing it shortly after O’Hara’s death, and then placing it under his late friend’s name in a sui generis act of comradeship and mourning. First published in a limited edition in 2011, an expanded, second edition of this book, titled A Question Mark above the Sun: Documents on the Mystery Surrounding a Famous Poem "by" Frank O’Hara, was published in 2012 and named a “Book of the Year” by the Times Literary Supplement. Johnson lived most of his childhood and adolescence in Montevideo, Uruguay, returning to work there in the mid-1970s. In the early 1980s, on two extended visits, he worked with the Sandinista Revolution as a literacy and Adult Education teaching volunteer in rural zones of Nicaragua. Since 1991, he has taught English and Spanish at Highland Community College in Freeport, Illinois. In 2004, he was named State Teacher of the Year by the Illinois Community College Board of Trustees. He has received a Pushcart Book of the Month Award, an Ohio Board of Regents Grant for research in the U.S.S.R., an Illinois Arts Council Poetry Prize, a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, a PEN Translation Grant, a Finalist nomination for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation, a travel grant from the University of Chile, and a Visiting Writer Grant from the U.S. Embassy in Uruguay. Johnson died on October 25, 2022, at the age of 67. He was survived by his wife, Deb, and his two sons. Selected works Poetry and Chapbooks Waves of Drifting Snow. Ox Head Press, 1986. Dear Lacan: An Analysis in Correspondence. (with Jaques Debrot), CCCP Translation Series (UK), 2003. The Miseries of Poetry: Traductions from the Greek. CCCP Translation Series (UK), 2003. The Miseries of Poetry: Traductions from the Greek. Skanky Possum Press, 2004. Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets. BlazeVOX Books, 2005. Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz: Eleven Submissions to the War. Effing Press, 2005. I Once Met. Longhouse Books, 2007. Homage to the Last Avant-Garde. Shearsman Books (UK), 2008. 5 Works from the Rejection Group. Habenicht Press, 2012. [Untitled]. Both Both Series, 2012. Homage to Villon. Beard of Bees, 2014. Works and Days of the fénéon collective, Delete Press