Books and Selected Other Work by Douglas Kearney

BOOKS / COMPOSITIONS

Sho (poetry, Wave Books, 2021)

Fodder, with Val Jeanty (poetry LP, Fonograf Editions, 2021) 

Starts Spinning (poetry Chapbook, Rain Taxi, 2020)

Buck Studies (poetry, Fence Books, 2016)

Someone Took They Tongues. 3 Operas (libretti, Subito Press, 2016)

Mess and Mess and (poetry and essays, Noemi Press, 2015)

Patter (poetry, Red Hen Press, 2014)

The Black Automaton (poetry, Fence Books, 2009)

LECTURES

Douglas Kearney’s Bagley Wright Lectures

“I Killed, I Died: Banter, Self-Destruction, and the Poetry Reading” (The Yale Review, 2021)

OTHER

“Dear Editor——: An Open Letter from Douglas Kearney” (Cave Canem, 2020)

Also Referenced

Bagley Wright Lecture Series

Christopher Titus, Born With a Defect

Tarik Dobbs

Jennifer Holliday as Effie in Dream Girls

Ellen Welcker

Rainer Maria Rilke, “The Archaic Torso of Apollo”

James Wright, “A Blessing” and “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota”

lucille clifton

Val Jeanty