# Douglas Kearney with Ron Charles

Douglas Kearney speaks with Washington Post Book Critic Ron Charles about his groundbreaking new collection of visual poems, “I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always.” Douglas Kearney has published eight books ranging from poetry to essays. 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, “Sho” (Wave Books), is a Griffin Poetry Prize and Minnesota Book Award winner. Kearney’s most recent collection, “I Imagine I Been Science Fiction Always,” is forthcoming from Wave Books in April 2025. 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.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2025
- Runtime: 1 h
- By: Charles, Ron
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10598/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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