Douglas Kearney

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Occupation Poet, writer, teacher Notable awards Whiting Awards Role Poet		Name Douglas Kearney Genre Poetry

Alma mater California Institute of the Arts Education California Institute of the Arts Books The Black Automaton, Fear, some Awards National Poetry Series, Whiting Awards

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Douglas Kearney is an American poet and librettist. Kearney grew up in Altadena, California.

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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.

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He teaches at California Institute of the Arts.

Awards

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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

Works

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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 978-1934819517

Buck Studies. Fence Books. 2016. ISBN 978-0-98643-737-3.

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. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

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. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)

References

Douglas Kearney Wikipedia

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