Douglas Kearney has published seven books ranging from poetry to essays to libretti. His most recent collection, Sho (Wave Books), is a Minnesota Book Award winner, a National Book Award, Griffin Poetry Prize, and Pen America-finalist. He is the 2021 recipient of OPERA America’s Campbell Opera Librettist Prize, created and generously funded by librettist/lyricist Mark Campbell. A Whiting Writer’s and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly awardee with residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others, he teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities.
Reviews
LA Review of Books, review-in-dialogue with Dean Rader and Victoria Chang
NPR Review of Books, Ken Chen
Poems
- “Buck,” “Promissorry Note,” “Borax*” “Static,” “Fire” (in Boundary2)
- "Manesology" (in LARB)
-"The Drifters After School" (in The New Republic)
-"Just Wanna Be Like" (in PEN America)
-"...Fox!" and "Sho" (in Poetry)
-"Everyday [I Gets]" and "Black Flight" (in Sewanee Review
-"Welter" (in Virginia Quarterly Review)
Articles
Interviews and Discussions