Kevin Clark

Kevin Clark’s third volume of poems The Consecrations is just out from Stephen F. Austin University Press. A second book, Self-Portrait with Expletives, won the Pleiades Press prize. His first collection In the Evening of No Warning earned a grant from the Academy of American Poets, while his most recent chapbook The Wanting won the Five Oaks Press contest.

Kevin has published poems in such journals as the Southern, Georgia, Iowa, Cincinnati, Wisconsin, and Antioch reviews, as well as Crazyhorse, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Hotel Amerika, Poetry Northwest, and The Denver Quarterly. His poetry is anthologized in several books, including The Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years, Keener Sounds: Selected Poems from The Georgia Review, A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry, and Intro. He’s won the Angoff Award for best contribution to The Literary Review.

Kevin also publishes essays about literature, some of which have appeared in magazines such as The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. A regular critic for The Georgia Review, he has published essays in books about Ruth Stone, Charles Wright, Sandra McPherson, Philip Levine, and Angie Estes. The first ArtsSmith Artist of the Year and winner of two university teaching awards, he has also authored The Mind’s Eye, a poetry-writing textbook published by Pearson Longman.

Having mentored with Sandra Gilbert and Ruth Stone, Kevin now teaches at The Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program situated at Pacific Lutheran University. He lives with his patient if humoring wife, activist and former local columnist Amy Hewes, on California’s central coast. Every spring and fall, he travels to Arizona and Florida to play in senior men’s fast-pitch hardball tournaments "despite legs like ancient concrete and more injuries than Evel Knievel."

Kevin Clark’s website with bio and email link is: http://kevinclarkpoetry.com.