Douglas Kearney


Douglas Kearney is an American poet, performer and librettist. Kearney grew up in Altadena, California and teaches at California Institute of the Arts. His work has appeared in Callaloo, 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.

Education

Kearney attended Howard University as an undergraduate. He graduated from California Institute of the Arts, with an MFA.

Awards