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Film, Video Douglas Kearney with Ron Charles

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Title

  • Douglas Kearney with Ron Charles

Summary

  • Douglas Kearney speaks with Washington Post Book Critic Ron Charles about his groundbreaking new collection of visual poems, "I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always." Douglas Kearney has published eight books ranging from poetry to essays. In 2023, "Optic Subwoof," a collection of his Bagley Wright lectures, won the Poetry Foundation's Pegasus Prize for Poetry Criticism and the CLMP Firecracker Award for Creative Nonfiction. His seventh, "Sho" (Wave Books), is a Griffin Poetry Prize and Minnesota Book Award winner. Kearney's most recent collection, "I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always," is forthcoming from Wave Books in April 2025. Kearney is a Whiting Writers and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Cy Twombly awardee with residencies/fellowships including Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and The McKnight Foundation. He is a Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of English at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities.

Event Date

  • February 27, 2025

Running Time

  • 1 hours 54 seconds

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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