";s:4:"text";s:5539:" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/144393 AMHERST, Mass.—John Hennessy, a poet “without an ounce of pretension—about either his working-class roots or the deftly turned poetry he makes of it,” according to Mary Jo Salter, will read from his new collection, Salter, poet and Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College, praises “Hennessy’s witty mythologizing gift.” Daniel Hall, poet-in-residence at Amherst College, writes of Hennessy grew up in New Jersey and received a B.A.
April 19, 2007 Director of Media Relations 413/542-8417. For more information, see the Sample Poems by John Hennessy "In energy-packed lines whose diction dovetails the formal and the colloquial, John Hennessy's Bridge and Tunnel is a genuinely original achievement. crowbar the paint factory’s broken window frames rip
tar paper from the caving roof push it back crack it open
blast an airshaft through the neighboring buildings snap
it back expose the bird-ridden drafts the wren’s been busy
here mornings year-round churr and chip golden open-throat
yodel smack in the sleep cycle soldered to feeder suet
in ivy like titmouse chickadee refusing to shift it back
Carolina Canada climate haywire more sky please rik tik tik
break open more light all the way past oil tank farms
creosote docks the Kill Van Kull slide by kingfisher flap
past cormorant incongruous flights parallel and merging
plunge into slap out of tidal pools the Fresh Kills beak
full of killifish and silversides crayfish and krill tarp
past the salt grass and bridges fly Pulaski Skyway
Bayonne’s silver buildings blank tower blocks sky
wide as the river mouth more sky more please push it back
past tankers and tugboats the last hulking cruise ship
lasers fired across a spinning disco ball wobble bass
and echo chamber dancing on deck past clanging buoys
waveless channels to deepest basin all things even
terns drop away sea and sky opened wide and empty "Who Will Save Now You're Grown" was published in Poetry Northwest, Volume XII, Issue 2, Winter & Spring 2019: 37. By John Hennessy
About this Poet
degree from Princeton University. John Hennessy and Ostap Kin are co-translators of A New Orthography, selected poems by Serhiy Zhadan (2020), as well as recipients of the John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize for Translation from Poetry magazine for work that appears in that volume. ). Available now: "After Greece" appears in the Harvard Review #53, Winter 2019: 164-165. In any case, readers of Poetry in particular and poetry in general should be interested; if the diversity of work Share published as an editor of the Partisan Review, Literary Imagination, and the Harvard Review is any indication, Share’s hiring is bound to enliven the journal and broaden the variety of poets published there. He has lived in New York, Amsterdam and Austin, and completed graduate degrees at the University of Texas and the University of Arkansas. Category: John Hennessy John Hennessy calls the Poetry Crisis Line.
His poems have appeared in Hennessy teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Hennessy is the author of two poetry collections, Bridge and Tunnel and Coney Island Pilgrims. John Hennessy has recently published poetry in several presitigious journals.
From “Convenience Store Aquinas” by John Hennessy.
The Amherst College Creative Writing Center sponsors a yearly reading series featuring both emerging and established authors. AMHERST, Mass.—John Hennessy, a poet “without an ounce of pretension—about either his working-class roots or the deftly turned poetry he makes of it,” according to Mary Jo Salter, will read from his new collection, Bridge and Tunnel (2007), at 8 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, at Amherst Books (8 Main Street, Amherst, Mass. John Hennessy is the author of two collections, Coney Island Pilgrims and Bridge and Tunnel, and his poems appear in many journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry 2013, The Believer, Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Fulcrum, Harvard Review, The New Republic, The Huffington Post, The Poetry Review (UK), Best New Poets 2005, and The Yale Review.