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[POETRY] The UB Poetics program is starting their 2015 calendar with a bang, hosting poet/performer/librettist Douglas Kearney for a double billing of town and gown readings this Thursday. Kearney is a dynamic performer, blending narrative and lyric work with theatrical experimentation that often breaks into concussive language fragments revealing a meta-narrative of suffering, hostility, and beauty that exists in most of his work. Douglas Kearney’s most recent poetry collection is Patter (Red 2014) which examines the themes of miscarriage, infertility, and parenthood. His second book, The Black Automaton (Fence Books, 2009), was a National Poetry Series selection. He has received residencies/fellowships from Cave Canem, The Rauschenberg Foundation, and others. He teaches in Valencia at CalArts. Kearney will read at 12:30 pm in the Poetry and Rare Book Collection on the 4th floor of Capen Hall and later that evening at WNYBAC as well.