Douglas Kearney

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

Douglas Kearney (1974)[1] is a renowned 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, 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]

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.
  • 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. 1 2 "Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize". www.svsu.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  2. ↑ Calarts.edu
  3. ↑ Calarts.edu Archived November 8, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "Douglas Kearney". criticalstudies.calarts.edu. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  5. ↑ Swed, Mark (2012-05-11). "Review: Industry's remarkable 'Crescent City' reshapes L.A. opera". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  6. ↑ "From the Fishouse: Poets: Douglas Kearney". 2009-12-18. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  7. ↑ "MAST by Douglas Kearney". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-07-21. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  8. ↑ "Douglas Kearney". Poetry Foundation. Poetry Foundation. 2018-07-21. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  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 2018-07-22.
  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. 2017-06-12. Retrieved 2018-07-22.
  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 2018-07-22.
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