FREE CHAPBOOK (2.7 mb PDF)
Finally. This link should automatically download my new, free chapbook: InJury. Enjoy!

The Chitlin Circuit
One of the first typographic experiments I did. The text was influenced by an attempt to replicate the kinetic aspects of a Futurist painting through words.

The Voltron Letters #1
Whenever I go to New York, I get crazy ideas for poems. I don’t know that they’re better ideas than the ones I get in L.A., but they are certainly different. This summer, while in Brooklyn, I decided to write a series of letters to the lions of Voltron, conflating them with the politics of a satirized Black Nationalist Organization. The first in the series is addressed to the Black Lion.

The City Vs. John Henry #1–#4
OK, so this is another New York poem. May 2007, hanging out with my cousin, Michael, the fine poets Tracy K. Smith, Camille Dungy and some other folks I can’t remember (there were pitchers of sangria involved, I’m sorry); we were going from bar to bar in Manhattan in search of more sangria and we kept doing the Stevie Wonder skit from “Living For The City.” The next morning, I decided it would be interesting to see what would happen if it were John Henry on that bus.

“Live/Evil” (3:56)
This poem is about smashing all of my Miles Davis CDs after reading a Pearl Cleage essay about his abuse of women. It appears in my book, Fear, Some.

The Black Automaton In De Despair Ub Existence #1: Up Ye Mighty Race (:53)
Here’s a first pass at creating an audio version of a Black Automaton poem. My cousin Paul—paulbuckleymusic.com—made it.

Swimchant of Nigger Mer-folk (2:11)
T.S. Eliot, Walt Disney and Robert Hayden collide in what I introduce as “a happy poem about the Middle Passage.” Enjoy!

Poem With Some Sand And All At Once…SHAITAN!!! (5:04)
Another of the Fear, Some poems: a horrified response to the So-Cal landscape and how it’s used.

(DIG!) Bloom is Boom, Sucka!!! (Act 3) (1:24)
An excerpt. It’s written as a poem aspiring to be a blaxploitation flick. ”(DIG!)” appears in Fear, Some, in its epic entirety.

Booking Packet (2.5 mb PDF)
This link should take you to a downloadable PDF that will give you some official information about what I can offer to a reading or classroom. E-mail douglas@douglaskearney.com to discuss specifics. Enjoy!