ProfessorGrace M. Pollock Professor of Creative Writing360 379 1446rk@uw.eduPDL B-437Fields of Interest Creative Writing Poetry and Poetics Background and ExperienceSummaryB.A., Dartmouth College, 1970Richard Kenney is the author of five books of poetry: The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, Orrery, The Invention of the Zero, The One Strand River, and Terminator. His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim, Lannan, and MacArthur Foundations. He teaches poetry and verse writing in the Undergraduate and MFA Programs at the University of Washington. He has initiated and directed English Department programs in Rome, and at the UW marine laboratories in Friday Harbor. His work is informed by current research in evolutonary and cognitive sciences. He's interested in language origins, the cognitive basis of poetic forms, magical reasoning, and the Darwinian lives of subliterary species such as jokes, riddles, proverbs, charms, spells, nursery rhymes and weather-saws. Among his favorite poets are Archilochos, Shakespeare, Keats, Hopkins, Yeats, Auden, Frost, Larkin, Wilbur, Merrill. He lives with his family in Port Townsend, on the Olympic Peninsula. Research Publications, Books Richard Kenney. The One Strand River. Alfred A. Knopf. 2008. Richard Kenney. The Invention of the Zero. Alfred A. Knopf. 1993. Richard Kenney. Orrery. Atheneum. 1985. Richard Kenney. The Evolution of the Flightless Bird. Yale University Press. 1984. Courses Taught Winter 2021 ENGL 581 A: The Creative Writer as Critical Reader Spring 2020 ENGL 483 B: Advanced Verse Workshop ENGL 581 B: The Creative Writer as Critical Reader Winter 2020 ENGL 383 B: The Craft of Verse Autumn 2019 ENGL 283 A: Beginning Verse Writing ENGL 383 B: The Craft of Verse Spring 2019 ENGL 585 A: Advanced Poetry Workshop Spring 2018 ENGL 581 B: The Creative Writer as Critical Reader Winter 2018 ENGL 383 A: The Craft of Verse ENGL 483 A: Advanced Verse Workshop Autumn 2017 ENGL 365 B: Literature And Discourse On The Environment ENGL 493 B: Advanced Creative Writing Conference Spring 2017 ENGL 283 D: Beginning Verse Writing Winter 2017 ENGL 383 A: The Craft Of Verse Autumn 2016 ENGL 283 C: Beginning Verse Writing ENGL 365 B: Literature And Discourse On The Environment ENGL 383 B: The Craft Of Verse ENGL 483 B: Advanced Verse Workshop ENGL 581 B: The Creative Writer As Critical Reader Spring 2016 ENGL 383 A: The Craft Of Verse Winter 2016 ENGL 483 A: Advanced Verse Workshop Autumn 2015 ENGL 283 C: Beginning Verse Writing ENGL 365 B: Literature And Discourse On The Environment ENGL 383 B: The Craft Of Verse ENGL 483 B: Advanced Verse Workshop ENGL 493 B: Advanced Creative Writing Conference ENGL 581 B: The Creative Writer As Critical Reader Winter 2015 ENGL 483 A: Advanced Verse Workshop Autumn 2014 ENGL 365 A: Literature And Discourse On The Environment ENGL 493 B: Advanced Creative Writing Conference ENGL 581 B: The Creative Writer As Critical Reader: Creative Writer as Critical Reader News Related News Recommended Reading / Faculty Suggest Winter Books Nov 16, 2017 Share: Print PDF