Douglas Kearney
Born	1974 (age 49–50) United States
Occupation	Poet, writer, teacher, librettist
Alma mater	Howard University ( B.A.) [1] CalArts ( M.F.A.) [2]
Notable awards	National Poetry Series Whiting Award Griffin Poetry Prize National Book Award Poetry Finalist

Douglas Kearney (born 1974) ^[3] is an American poet, performer and librettist. Kearney grew up in Altadena, California. His work has appeared in 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. ^{[4] [5]} In 2012, his and Anne LeBaron's opera, Crescent City, premiered and received widespread praise. ^[6] He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. ^[7]

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 ^{[8] [9]}
• 2007 Returning Fellow fellowships at the Idyllwild Summer Arts Poetry Workshop
• 2007 Notable New American Poet by the Poetry Society of America ^[10]
• 2008 Whiting Award ^{[11] [12]}
• 2008 National Poetry Series ^{[13] [14]}
• 2010 Finalist for PEN Center USA Award. ^[15]
• 2014 California Book Awards Poetry Finalist for Patter ^[16]
• 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry for Buck Studies ^[17]
• 2017 Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize ^[3]
• 2017 Silver Medalist, California Book Award (poetry) for Buck Studies ^[18]
• 2021 Campbell Opera Librettist Prize ^[19]
• 2021 National Book Award Poetry Finalist for Sho ^[20]
• 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize, international winner for Sho ^[21]
• 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction for Optic Subwoof ^[22]
• 2023 Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism for Optic Subwoof ^[23]

Works

External videos
Douglas Kearney @ Valley Contemporary Poets, vimeo

• FEAR, SOME. Red Hen Press. 2006. ISBN  978-1-59709-071-1.
• The Black Automaton. Fence Books. 2009. 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  978-1-93481-951-7.
• Someone Took They Tongues. Subito Press. 2016. ISBN  978-0-9906612-5-2.
• Buck Studies. Fence Books. 2016. ISBN  978-0-98643-737-3.
• Sho. Wave Books. April 2021. ISBN  9781950268153.
• Optic Subwoof. Wave Books. November 2022. ISBN  9781950268672.

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 Alexie, David Lehman, eds (2015) Best American Poetry 2015 ^[24] Scribner Press. ISBN  978-1476708201
• Melissa Tuckey, ed. (2018). Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press. ISBN  978-0820353159.

References

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