Poems by Douglas Kearney

28 pages, saddle-stapled

9.25” x 5” (closed)

Letterpress from photopolymer, risograph, and collagraph on Mohawk Superfine Eggshell

Edition of 200

2026

$20

Available here

A cycle of constraint-based poems written out of a sentence from Fred Moten’s “Knowledge of Freedom.”

Douglas Kearney has published eight books ranging from poetry to essays. His most recent collection, I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always, was published with Wave Books in April 2025 and was a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. 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 book, Sho, (Wave Books) is a Griffin Poetry Prize and Minnesota Book Award winner. 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.