Douglas Kearney

Douglas Kearney (1974)[1] is an American poet, performer and librettist. Kearney grew up in Altadena, California and teaches at California Institute of the Arts.[2] His work has appeared in Callaloo, Nocturnes, Jubilat, Beloit Poetry Journal, Gulf Coast, Poetry, Pleiades, Iowa Review, Callaloo, Boston Review, Hyperallergic, Scapegoat, Obsidian, Boundary 2, Jacket2, Lana Turner, Brooklyn Rail, and Indiana Review.[3][4] In 2012, his and Anne LeBaron's opera, Crescent City, premiered and received widespread praise.[5]

Douglas Kearney
Born	United States
Occupation	Poet, writer, teacher
Alma mater	California Institute of the Arts
Genre	Poetry
Notable awards	Whiting Award

Education

Kearney attended Howard University as an undergraduate. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts, with an MFA (2004).

Awards

• 2000-2002 Cave Canem Fellowship
• 2004 Bread Loaf Writer's Conference Fellowship
• 2004 & 2005 Callaloo Creative Writer's Workshop Fellowship
• 2006 Coat Hanger Award for poem Swimchant for Nigger Mer-folk[6][7]
• 2007 Returning Fellow fellowships at the Idyllwild Summer Arts Poetry Workshop
• 2007 Notable New American Poet by the Poetry Society of America[8]
• 2008 Whiting Award[9][10]
• 2008 National Poetry Series[11][12]
• 2010 Finalist for Pen Center USA Award.[13]
• 2014 California Book Awards Poetry Finalist for Patter [14]
• 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry for Buck Studies[15]
• 2017 Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize[1]

Works

External video
Douglas Kearney @ Valley Contemporary Poets, vimeo

• Someone Took They Tongues. 2016. ISBN 978-0-9906612-5-2
• FEAR, SOME. Red Hen Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-59709-071-1.
• The Black Automaton. Fence Books. 2008. ISBN 978-1-934200-28-5.
• PATTER. Red Hen Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1-59709-580-8.
• Mess and Mess and. Noemi Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1934819517
• Buck Studies. Fence Books. 2016. ISBN 978-0-98643-737-3.

Anthologies

• Tony Medina; Louis Reyes Rivera, eds. (2001). Bum Rush the Page: a Def Poetry Jam. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-609-80840-5.
• Samiya Bashir; Tony Medina; Quarishi Ali Lansana, eds. (2002). Role Call: a generational anthology of social and political Black art & literature. Third World Press. ISBN 978-0-88378-238-5.
• Sheree R. Thomas, ed. (2005). Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. Aspect. ISBN 978-0446693776
• Nikky Finney, ed. (2007). "Big Thicket: Pastoral". The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2926-0.
• Mark Eleveld, ed. (2007) Spoken Word Revolution Redux. Sourcebooks MediaFusion. ISBN 978-1402208690
• Sherman Alexi, David Lehman, eds (2015) Best American Poetry 2015[16] Scribner Press. ISBN 978-1476708201
• Melissa Tuckey, ed. (2018). Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0820353159.

References

1. "Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize". www.svsu.edu. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
2. "Calarts.edu". Archived from the original on February 16, 2009. Retrieved August 20, 2009.
3. Calarts.edu Archived November 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
4. "Douglas Kearney". criticalstudies.calarts.edu. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
5. Swed, Mark (May 11, 2012). "Review: Industry's remarkable 'Crescent City' reshapes L.A. opera". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
6. "From the Fishouse: Poets: Douglas Kearney". December 18, 2009. Archived from the original on December 18, 2009. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
7. "MAST by Douglas Kearney". Poetry Foundation. July 21, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
8. "Douglas Kearney". Poetry Foundation. July 21, 2018. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
9. Sdcitybookfair.com
10. Kellogg, Carolyn (November 12, 2008). "This poet's at home on page and stage". The Los Angeles Times.
11. Bookslut.com
12. NBC
13. "Douglas Kearney - Los Angeles Review of Books". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
14. "84th Annual California Book Awards Winners".
15. "The 2017 Firecracker Award Winners - Community of Literary Magazines and Presses". Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. June 12, 2017. Archived from the original on October 23, 2017. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
16. "Douglas Kearney's "In the End, They Were Born on TV" the third TIR poem selected for Best American Poetry 2015! | The Iowa Review". iowareview.org. Retrieved July 22, 2018.

External links

• Douglas Kearney's website
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation
• "Douglas Kearney", Fishouse
• "History, Reconciliation, and Form: A Conversation Between Amaud J. Johnson & Douglas Kearney", Boxcar Poetry Review, 2008
• "Douglas Kearney reads “A Poison Tree” by William Blake", Poets on Poets