Lawrence Kearney (b. 1948) Father Answers His Adversaries LINKS No links found. BIOGRAPHY Lawrence Kearney (b. 1948) Born in Oxford, England, Kearney grew up in Buffalo, New York. His first collection of poems is Kingdom Come (1980). He has published poems in the Atlantic Monthly, the Chicago Review, Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Paris Review, and the Virginia Quarterly Review.