Event | Lectures and Symposia Live! At the Library: Douglas Kearney with Ron Charles

Douglas Kearney will talk 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.