Poetry

Richard Kenney is a poet whose technical skill, emotional depth, and intellectual resonance are showcased in his five books of poems: The One-Strand River: Poems 1994–2007; The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize; Orrey; The Invention of the Zero, and Terminator (Knopf, 2019). A recipient of the Lannan Literary Prize, Kenney serves as the Grace M. Pollock Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Washington.

Five Poems

by Richard Kenney

Spring Wedding

After C. L.’s “Raynaud’s Weather,” in two-part harmony

1.

Across accursed icy sidewise skirr
Two starlings, March harbingers, exit
Sky ceremoniously as Kleenex
Up a Shop-Vac. Fuck this, they hack. I scurry

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