Douglas Kearney has published seven poetry collections, including Sho (Wave 2021), which is a finalist for the PEN and the National Book Award, Buck Studies (Fence Books, 2016), winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Award, the CLMP Firecracker Award for Poetry, and the California Book Award silver medal for poetry. He has received a Whiting Writer’s Award, a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly Award for Poetry, residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others. Kearney teaches Creative Writing at the University of Minnesota–Twin Cities and lives in St. Paul with his family.
Contents
You Better Hush: Blacktracking a Visual Poetics #werewolfgoals
Red/Read, Read/Red: Putting Violence Down in Poetry
Note on collaboration: Red/Read Version
I Killed, I Died: Banter, the Poetry Reading, and Self-Destruction
Appendix: Q&A with Cave Canem
