Christopher Kennedy is the author of three poetry collections, Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death (BOA Editions, Ltd.), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award in 2007; Trouble with the Machine (Low Fidelity Press); and Nietzsche's Horse (Mitki/Mitki Press). His work has appeared in many print and on-line journals and magazines, including Ploughshares, New York Tyrant, Ninth Letter, The Threepenny Review, Slope, Mississippi Review, and McSweeney's. He is an associate professor of English at Syracuse University where he directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing.
<br>. ..this third book of prose poems (his fourth book overall) shows [Kennedy's] clear mastery of several prose-poem forms, with lyricism, jokiness ( Amish Radio ), non sequiturs, sadness, and even a bit of cultural criticism to boot. <br>-- Publishers Weekly