Kevin Stein


Kevin Stein is a poet and professor of English at the Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. The fourth poet laureate of the State of Illinois, he held the post from 2003 to 2017. He started teaching at Bradley University in 1984, and then became the Caterpillar Professor of English and the Coordinator of the Creative Writing Program.

Biography

He received his Ph.D. in American literature and an M.A. in creative writing from Indiana University. Shortly after, he went to Bradley University, where he has been a poet and professor of English at the Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois and currently has the title of the Caterpillar Professor of English and is the coordinator of the Creative Writing Program.
In December 2003, he was named the Illinois Poet Laureate. He stepped down from the role in December 2017.

Awards

  • Order of Lincoln, 2017

    Works

  • Wrestling Li Po for the Remote
  • Sufficiency of the Actual
  • American Ghost Roses
  • Chance Ransom
  • Bruised Paradise
  • A Circus of Want
  • The Figure Our Bodies Make
  • A Field of Wings
  • Poetry’s Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age
  • Private Poets, Worldly Acts
  • ''James Wright: The Poetry of a Grown Man''