Douglas Kearney is an L.A.-based poet, performer, teacher, and recipient of the prestigious Whiting Writers’ Award for emerging authors. The honor carries a $50,000 prize.
Kearney’s poetry has appeared in various journals, including Callaloo, Gulf Coast, nocturnes and jubilat; and anthologies, including Bum Rush the Page, Role Call, the award-winning Dark Matter: Reading the Bones, and the upcoming Saints of Hysteria.
He has written/performed for audio recordings and television and has been a featured performer across the country, including the New York Public Theater, Minneapolis’ Orpheum, and L.A.’s World Stage. Kearney has received commissions from the Weisman Art Museum and the Studio Museum in Harlem to create poetry in response to art installations.
The writer has exhibited InJury, a series combining poetry and image at the 2005 Afro-Geek Conference at UC Santa Barbara. He has also designed a number of poetry books ranging from chapbooks to anthologies.
Kearney received an MFA from CalArts, where he teaches African American Studies/Poetics. In 2007, he was named a notable New American Poet by the Poetry Society of America. His first full-length collection, Fear, Some will be available at his reading and book signing at City College.

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