The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog

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Saturday, November 26, 2016

An Advent Reflection by Guest Blogger Joe Weil

This week’s guest blogger is Joe Weil, an old and dear friend whom I met at Barron Arts Center in 1981. Winner of the 2013 Working ...

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Prompt #268 – Remember and Give Thanks

Thanksgiving will take place this coming week and is a day set aside here in the United States (other countries have similar days) to...

Saturday, November 5, 2016

Prompt #267 – Writing from an Emotional Place

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought, and the thought has found words. — Robert Frost Emotion is poetry can...

Saturday, October 29, 2016

Prompt #265 – Behind the Mask

With Halloween just a couple of days away, masks and their particular psychology seems an appropriate subject for this week'...

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ADELE KENNY: I’m the author of 25 books (poetry & nonfiction) with poems published in journals in the U.S. and abroad, as well as in books and anthologies from Crown, Tuttle, Shambhala, and McGraw-Hill. I’ve worked as a guest poet for numerous agencies, have twice been a featured reader in the Dodge Poetry Festival, and my awards include two poetry fellowships from the NJ State Arts Council, the 2012 International Book Award for Poetry, and the Distinguished Alumni Award (Kean University). My book, A LIGHTNESS, A THIRST, OR NOTHING AT ALL, is a 2016 Paterson Prize finalist. In March of 2012, I was appointed Poet Laureate of Fanwood, NJ by the Borough Mayor and Council. A former professor of creative writing in the College of New Rochelle’s Graduate School, I’m founding director of the Carriage House Poetry Series and poetry editor for Tiferet Journal. I give readings and conduct both agency-sponsored and private poetry workshops.

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