Douglas Kearney

Douglas Kearney’s six books of poetry include Sho (Wave Books) and Buck Studies (Fence Books), which won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry, as well as Mess and Mess and (Noemi Press) and the collection of libretti, Someone Took They Tongues (Subito). He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, and fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others. He teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota.