Kevin Clark, Ph.D

Department of English
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407

Office Location: 47-26H
(Faculty Offices Building)
Office Phone Number:
(805) 756-2596
Email Address: kclark
@calpoly.edu

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Kevin Clark earned both his M.A. in Creative Writing (1979) and his Ph.D. in Literature (1986) at UC Davis. A recipient of the Cal Poly Distinguished Teaching Award, he teaches poetry writing and modern and contemporary American literature.

Kevin’s book Self-Portrait with Expletives is winner of the 2009 Pleiades Press book contest and will be published in the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series, distributed by LSU Press. His first full-length collection In the Evening of No Warning earned a grant from the Academy of American Poets. He’s also published three chapbooks: One of Us (Mille Grazie Press), Granting the Wolf (State Street Press), and Widow under a New Moon (Owl Creek Press).?

Kevin’s poetry has appeared widely in such journals as the Georgia, Iowa, and Antioch reviews, Crazyhorse, Ploughshares, Gulf Coast, The New York Quarterly, and The Denver Quarterly. The Notre Dame Review has anthologized one of his poems in The Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years. He’s also the winner of Angoff Award for best contribution to The Literary Review. His criticism about contemporary poetry has appeared in numerous venues, among them The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. A semi-regular contributor to the review pages of The Georgia Review, Clark also has published essays in books about Ruth Stone, Charles Wright, and Sandra McPherson.

His textbook, The Mind's Eye: A Guide to Writing Poetry, is published by Pearson Longman.Kevin has long been associated with Cal Poly's WriterSpeak program, helping to bring visiting and local writers to campus for readings and discussion. He often serves on the university's Athletic Governing Board and the English Department's Executive, Appointments, and Creative Writing committees.

During the summers Kevin teaches at The Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program in Tacoma. He lives with his wife and children on California’s central coast, where he continues to play upper division softball "despite legs like ancient concrete and more injuries than Evel Knievel."

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