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Kevin Durkin [1]

Listed as: 
Poet
Public address: 
Santa Monica, CA
California US
Email: 
kevindurkinpoetry@gmail.com
Bio: 

Kevin Durkin attended schools in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Germany before earning his degree in English literature from Princeton University. He has taught English in Singapore, Kitakyushu (Japan), New York City, and Washington, D.C. He also has performed in the plays of Shakespeare across the United States. Currently a managing editor at Light and at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, he resides with his wife and two daughters in Santa Monica.

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Prizes won: 

2015 Frost Farm Prize

What I'm reading now: 
Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz by Dick Davis
Toward the Winter Solstice by Timothy Steele
Keeping My Name by Catherine Tufariello
Collected Poems: 1943-2004 by Richard Wilbur
Walking in on People by Melissa Balmain

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