Rick Kearns

Poet

3022 North 5th Street

Harrisburg, PA 17110

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Author's Bio

He has also had work published in Drum Voices Revue, The Patterson Review, Big Hammer and many other journals. Some of his work deals with his Puerto Rican heritage, including some work exploring his Taino ancestry. Rick has also been a journalist for 25 years, publishing over 400 articles about indigenous Latin America in "Indian Country Today Media Network".

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice (Michigan State University Press, 2019)

I Was Indian (before being Indian was cool) (Foothills Publishing, 2009)

El Coro/A Chorus of Latino and Latina Poetry (University of Massachusetts Press, 1997)

Book:

Rufino's Secret (Foothills Publishing, 2011)

Journals:

Chicago Review

Massachusetts Review

Onthebus

Painted Bride Quarterly

PALABRA: A Magazine of Chicano & Latino Literary Art

Yellow Medicine Review: A Journal of Indigenous Literature, Art, and Thought

Prizes won:

Named Poet Laureate of the City of Harrisburg, Pa in 2014.

Honorable Mention in the Split This Rock Poetry Contest 2017 for "Everyday We Remember Oscar Lopez Rivera".

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

Puerto Rican

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

Spanish

Born in:

Harrisburg

Raised in:

Harrisburg, PA

Pennsylvania

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Last update: Apr 25, 2019