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Kearney’s second book, The Black Automaton is out! Copies have been spotted at Skylight Books, Barnes & Noble and online. Poet Ruth Ellen Kocher has this to say about the book.

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo of Splinter Generation interviews Douglas Kearney.

Kearney is the featured poet at The Nervous Breakdown!

Pasadena Star News article featuring Douglas Kearney

Kevin Killian drops more than 2¢ on The Black Automaton for Amazon.com

Evan J Peterson big-ups The Black Automaton on The Rumpus.

Micah Ling speaks on The Black Automaton for Tarapaulin Sky.

Vanessa Place discusses The Black Automaton as “New Masculinist lyric” on The Constant Critic.

Ed Skoog recommends The Black Automaton on Ron Slate’s On the Seawall!

Ben Mirov shines the light on The Black Automaton on the BOMB blogsite.

Jeff Brandt explores The Black Automaton on Inkfist.

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright breaks it down about The Black Automaton on The Brooklyn Rail.

Jacquelyn Davis gets at The Black Automaton on Bookslut.

Douglas Kearney wins a Whiting Writers’ Award. Here’s a link to a feature story in the LA Times.

The incomparable Didi Menendez’s Oranges & Sardines published an analysis of Fear, Some, Kearney’s first book. Michael Parker is the poetic analyst.

Here is an LA Times article about Neo-Benshi, a hybrid form of performance and film featuring Kearney and his wife Nicole McJamerson as well as curators/Neo-Benshis Jen Hofer and Konrad Steiner. Kearney + McJamerson have done Neo-Benshi subversions of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Fantasia.