Kevin Durkin

Poet

Santa Monica, CA
California US
Email: 
kevindurkinpoetry@gmail.com

Author's Bio

Kevin Durkin attended schools in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Germany before earning his degree in English literature from Princeton University. He has taught English in Singapore, Kitakyushu (Japan), New York City, and Washington, D.C. He also has performed in the plays of Shakespeare across the United States. Currently a managing editor at Light and at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, he resides with his wife and two daughters in Santa Monica.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Extreme Formal Poems: Contemporary Poets (Rhizome Press, 2021)
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Extreme Sonnets (Rhizome Press, 2020)
,
Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2018)
,
Measure for Measure (Random House, 2015)
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Irresistible Sonnets (Headmistress Press, 2014)
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Able Muse Anthology (Able Muse Press, 2010)
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Poetry Daily: 366 Poems from the World's Most Popular Website (Sourcebooks, Inc., 2003)
Chapbook:
Los Angeles in Fog (Finishing Line Press, 2013)
Journals:
Able Muse
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Alabama Literary Review
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American Arts Quarterly
,
Angle Journal of Poetry in English
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Calamaro
,
First Things
,
Hellas
,
Light Quarterly
,
Measure
,
New Criterion
,
Poemeleon
,
Poet Lore
,
Poetry
,
Pratik
,
Raintown Review
,
The Chimaera
,
The Dark Horse
,
The Evansville Review
,
The Formalist
,
The Orchards Poetry Journal
,
Yale Review
Prizes won: 

2015 Frost Farm Prize

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz by Dick Davis, Toward the Winter Solstice by Timothy Steele, Keeping My Name by Catherine Tufariello, Collected Poems: 1943-2004 by Richard Wilbur, Walking in on People by Melissa Balmain

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
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Last update: Oct 15, 2021