Douglas Kearney

Douglas Kearney is an American poet.

Life

He graduated from California Institute of the Arts, with an MFA. His work has appeared in Callaloo, nocturnes, jubilat, Gulf Coast.^[1]

He teaches at California Institute of the Arts.^[2]

Awards

• 2007 Returning Fellow fellowships at the Idyllwild Summer Arts Poetry Workshop
• Cave Canem Fellowship
• Callaloo Creative Writer’s Workshop Fellowship
• Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference Fellowship
• Whiting Writers' Award ^[3][4]
• 2008 National Poetry Series ^[5][6]

Works

• FEAR, SOME. Red Hen Press. 2006. ISBN 9781597090711. 
• The Black Automaton. Fence Books. 2009. ISBN 9781934200285. 

Anthologies

• Nikky Finney, ed (2007). "Big Thicket: Pastoral". The ringing ear: Black poets lean south. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820329260. http://books.google.com/books?id=YMMCB-_-xFYC&pg=PA346&dq=Douglas+Kearney&lr=&client=firefox-a#v=onepage&q=Douglas%20Kearney&f=false. 
• Tony Medina, Louis Reyes Rivera, ed (2001). Bum rush the page: a Def Poetry Jam. Three Rivers Press. ISBN 9780609808405. 
• Tony Medina, Quarishi Ali Lansana, ed (2002). Role call: a generational anthology of social and political Black art & literature. Third World Press. ISBN 9780883782385. 

References

1. ^ http://calarts.edu/faculty_bios/criticalstudies/faculty/douglaskearney/douglaskearney
2. ^ http://calarts.edu/news/26-sep-2008/facultymemberdouglaskearneyselected2008nationalpoetryseries
3. ^ http://www.sdcitybookfair.com/authors/49-douglas-kearney.html
4. ^ Kellogg, Carolyn (November 12, 2008). "This poet's at home on page and stage". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/nov/12/entertainment/et-douglas-kearney12. 
5. ^ http://www.bookslut.com/poetry/2010_01_015654.php
6. ^ http://events.nbclosangeles.com/los-angeles-ca/events/show/96687865-douglas-kearney-will-read-from-his-poetry-collection-the-black-automaton

External links

• Douglas Kearney's website
• "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

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