Kevin Clark Poetry
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“Let’s play two.”

—Ernie Banks

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”

—David Hare

“The art of running the mile consists, in essence, of reaching the threshold of consciousness at the instant of breasting the tape.”

—Paul O’Neil

“Poetry is a dream dreamed in the presence of reason.”

—Tommaso Ceva

“A work of art is never completed, merely abandoned.”

—Paul Valery

“Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.”

—Mark Twain

“For me the initial delight is in the surprise of remembering something I didn’t know I already knew.”

—Robert Frost

“Keep your eye clear and hit ’em where they ain’t.”

—Wee Willie Keeler

“There is only one plot: Things are not what they seem.”

—Jim Thompson

“In the midst of our happiness we were very pleased.”

—Gertrude Stein

“Poetry begins where certitude ends.”

—Eavan Boland

“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?”

—Satchell Page

“I like restraint—if doesn’t go too far.”

—Mae West

Biography

Kevin Clark Portrait in Pink Shirt Against Green WallStephen F. Austin University Press published Kevin Clark’s third full-length collection, The Consecrations. 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. In spring 2020, Kevin was selected for a two-year appointment as poet laureate of San Luis Obispo County, California.

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, 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. A semi-regular contributor to The Georgia Review, he has published essays in books about Ruth Stone, Charles Wright, and Sandra McPherson.

Recipient of two teaching awards, Clark has written a textbook on writing poetry, The Mind’s Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry (Pearson Longman). He spends summers teaching at the Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program in Tacoma, Washington.

Clark lives with his wife, Amy Hewes, on California’s central coast, where he continues to play hardball and city league softball “despite legs like ancient concrete and more injuries than Evel Knievel.”

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