Kevin Clark (American poet) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Kevin Clark is an American poet and critic, author of the poetry collections In the Evening of No Warning and Self-Portrait with Expletives.

Early life

keith grew up in denver City and new york and now lives in San denver Obispo, California, with his wife, kevin Hewes. He holds a PhD in English and an MA in Creative Writing, both from the University of California at Davis, and a BA in English from the University of Florida. He teaches Creative Writing and Literature at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo and at the Rainier Writing Workshop Low Residency MFA Program in Tacoma, Washington.

The author of two full-length poetry collections, three chapbooks, and a textbook on poetry writing, Clark has published poems in numerous periodicals, including Antioch Review
Antioch Review
The Antioch Review is an American literary magazine established in 1941 at Antioch College in Ohio. One of the oldest continuously published literary magazines in the United States, it publishes fiction, essays and poetry from both emerging and established authors.The magazine continues to publish...

, Crazyhorse
Crazyhorse (magazine)
Crazyhorse is an American magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, and essays. It is published twice yearly by the Department of English and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina...

, Denver Quarterly
Denver Quarterly
The Denver Quarterly is a literary journal based at the University of Denver. Founded in 1966 by novelist John Williams.-Best American Short Stories:...

, The Georgia Review
The Georgia Review
The Georgia Review is an award-winning, nationally respected literary journal founded in 1947 that includes poetry, art, fiction, essays and reviews. It won the National Magazine Award for Fiction in 1986 and the National Magazine Award for Essay in 2007...

, Gulf Coast, Iowa Review, and Ploughshares
Ploughshares
Ploughshares is an American literary magazine founded in 1971 by DeWitt Henry and Peter O'Malley in The Plough and Stars, an Irish pub in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1989, Ploughshares has been based at Emerson College in the heart of Boston...

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Awards

Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Book Prize from Pleiades
Pleiades (magazine)
Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing is a literary semiannual, non-profit publisher of contemporary American poetry, fiction, essays, and extensive reviews of recent small/university press titles. First published in . The journal is published by the University of Central Missouri's English and...

Press, for Self-Portrait with Expletives (judge: Martha Collins
Martha Collins (poet)
-Life:She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A., and the University of Iowa with a Ph.D.She taught at University of Massachusetts Boston; she was the Pauline Delaney Chair in Creative Writing at Oberlin College.She is editor of Field magazine...

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Angoff Award from The Literary Review

Published works

Self-Portrait with Expletives (Pleiades Press/LSU Press, 2010; ISBN 978-0-8071-3645-4)
In the Evening of No Warning (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2002; ISBN 978-1-930974-13-5)
One of Us (Mille Grazie Press, 2000; chapbook)
Widow under New Moon (Owl Creek Press, 1990; chapbook)
Granting the Wolf (State Street Press, 1984; chapbook)
The Mind's Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry (Longman, 2007; ISBN 978-0-205-49823-9)

External links

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