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Biography
Introduction
Douglas Kearney is an American poet and librettist. Kearney grew up in Altadena, California.
Life and education
Kearney attended Howard University as an undergraduate. He also graduated from California Institute of the Arts, with an MFA. His work has appeared in Callaloo, Nocturnes, Jubilat, Gulf Coast.
He teaches at California Institute of the Arts.
Awards
- 2000-2002 Cave Canem Fellowship
- 2004 Bread Loaf Writer's Conference Fellowship
- 2004 & 2005 Callaloo Creative Writer's Workshop Fellowship
- 2007 Returning Fellow fellowships at the Idyllwild Summer Arts Poetry Workshop
- 2008 Whiting Award
- 2008 National Poetry Series
- 2014 California Book Awards Poetry Finalist for Patter
- Sdcitybookfair.com
- Kellogg, Carolyn (November 12, 2008). "This poet's at home on page and stage". The Los Angeles Times.
- Bookslut.com
- NBC
- "84th Annual California Book Awards Winners".
Works
- 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.
Anthologies
- Nikky Finney, ed. (2007). "Big Thicket: Pastoral". The ringing ear: Black poets lean south. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0-8203-2926-0.
- 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.