Douglas Kearney (born 1974) 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. In 2012, his and Anne LeBaron's opera, Crescent City, premiered and received widespread praise. He is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota.
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
2007 Returning Fellow fellowships at the Idyllwild Summer Arts Poetry Workshop
2007 Notable New American Poet by the Poetry Society of America
2008 Whiting Award
2008 National Poetry Series
2010 Finalist for PEN Center USA Award. 2014 California Book Awards Poetry Finalist for Patter 2017 CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry for Buck Studies 2017 Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize 2017 Silver Medalist, California Book Award (poetry) for Buck Studies 2021 Campbell Opera Librettist Prize 2021 National Book Award Poetry Finalist for Sho 2022 Griffin Poetry Prize, international winner for Sho 2023 CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction for Optic Subwoof 2023 Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism for Optic Subwoof
Works
Anthologies
Sheree R. Thomas, ed. (2005). Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. Aspect.
Mark Eleveld, ed. (2007) Spoken Word Revolution Redux. Sourcebooks MediaFusion. Sherman Alexie, David Lehman, eds (2015) Best American Poetry 2015 Scribner Press.
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