Author of three full-length collections of poetry, four chapbooks, and a creative writing textbook, Kevin Clark teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop in Tacoma. Kevin’s most recent full-length volume of poems, The Consecrations, is published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. Self-Portrait with Expletives won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize of Pleiades Press. His first book, In the Evening of No Warning, earned a grant from the Academy of American Poets. He’s also won the Angoff Award from The Literary Review, an Artsmith fellowship, a Bread Loaf fellowship, and two university teaching awards. Kevin has been a regular critic for The Georgia Review, and his essays about poetry appear widely. In spring 2020, Kevin was selected for a two-year appointment as poet laureate of San Luis Obispo County, California. Despite knees that grind like stone mills, Kevin plays rec league softball and tournament baseball. He lives with his understanding if humoring wife Amy Hewes in San Luis Obispo.
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“Kevin Clark’s The Consecrations is a timely book about fear and faith—in particular, the many spiritual, philosophical, and familial beliefs that keep us afloat through the crises that punctuate our lives. These complex and highly readable poems, where ‘heaven’s just a wet dream,’ refuse to ignore the fact of our physical suffering even as the book finally celebrates the desires that keep us tethered to the world.”
—Paisley Rekdal
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Author of three full-length collections of poetry, four chapbooks, and a creative writing textbook, Kevin Clark teaches at the Rainier Writing Workshop in Tacoma. Kevin’s most recent full-length volume of poems, The Consecrations, is published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. Self-Portrait with Expletives won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize of Pleiades Press. His first book, In the Evening of No Warning, earned a grant from the Academy of American Poets. He’s also won the Angoff Award from The Literary Review, an Artsmith fellowship, a Bread Loaf fellowship, and two university teaching awards. Kevin has been a regular critic for The Georgia Review, and his essays about poetry appear widely. In spring 2020, Kevin was selected for a two-year appointment as poet laureate of San Luis Obispo County, California. Despite knees that grind like stone mills, Kevin plays rec league softball and tournament baseball. He lives with his understanding if humoring wife Amy Hewes in San Luis Obispo.
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