The Mind’s Eye, written by a published poet, focuses on imagery and sound and has the added benefit of being concise, inexpensive, and handy. Contemporary poetry as well as traditional form is discussed, with an emphasis on contemporary poets — more than ninety of them — and three student poets. Chapters deal with difficult topics such as racism, war, mortality, gender, and more.
Kevin Clark's book Self-Portrait with Expletives has won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Book Competition and will be published by Pleiades Press and distributed by LSU Press. His first full-length collection In the Evening of No Warning (New Issues Press, 2002) earned a grant from the Academy of American Poets.
The author of three chapbooks, Kevin has published poems 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. Several years ago he won the Angoff Award for best contribution to The Literary Review.
Kevin also writes many essays about literature, some of which have appeared in magazines such as The Iowa Review, The Southern Review, and Contemporary Literary Criticism. A semi-regular contributor to the review pages of The Georgia Review, he's also published essays in books about Ruth Stone, Charles Wright, and Sandra McPherson. Winner of two teaching awards, Kevin has written a poetry writing textbook, The Mind's Eye, published by Pearson Longman.
Kevin teaches American literature and creative writing at Cal Poly in San Luis Obispo, and during the summers he teaches at The Rainier Writing Workshop, a low-residency MFA program in Tacoma. His web site is "www.calpoly.edu/~kclark." He lives with his wife Amy Hewes on California's central coast, where he continues to play upper division softball "despite legs like ancient concrete and more injuries than Evel Knievel."
