John Hennessy Poetry Reading

John Hennessy is the author of the collections Exit Garden State (Lost Horse Press, 2024/Eastern Washington UP), Coney Island Pilgrims (Ashland Poetry Press, 2013), and Bridge and Tunnel (Turning Point, 2007) and cotranslator with Ostap Kin of A New Orthography (Lost Horse Press, 2020), selected poems by Serhiy Zhadan, which was a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation in 2021 and won the Derek Walcott Prize 2021. Hennessy and Kin also translated the anthology Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond (Harvard University Press, 2023). Hennessy is the poetry editor of The Common and teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.