Kevin Clark’s third full-length collection The Consecrations is issued from Stephen F. Austin University Press. Winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Book Competition, Kevin’s Self-Portrait with Expletives was published by Pleiades Press and distributed by LSU Press. His first full-length collection, In the Evening of No Warning (New Issues Poetry and Prose), earned a grant from the Academy of American Poets. Clark also won the Angoff Award for best contribution to The Literary Review, an Artsmith fellowship, and a Bread Loaf fellowship.
The author of four chapbooks, Clark has published poems in such journals as the Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Antioch Review, Crazyhorse, Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Copper Nickel, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, and Poetry Northwest. One of his poems was anthologized in The Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years.
Clark also writes essays about literature, some of which have appeared in magazines such as the Iowa Review, Southern Review, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. Formerly a critic for The Georgia Review, he has published essays in books about Ruth Stone, Charles Wright, and Sandra McPherson.
Clark taught at both Cal Poly and the Rainier Writing Workshop. Recipient of two teaching awards, he has written a textbook on writing poetry, The Mind’s Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry (Pearson Longman).
He lives with his wife, activist Amy Hewes, on California’s central coast.