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Adele Kenny

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Adele Kenny is the author of twenty-six books (poetry & nonfiction) with poems published in journals worldwide, as well as in books and anthologies from Crown, Tuttle, Shambhala, and McGraw-Hill. Her awards include two poetry fellowships from the NJ State Arts Council, first place Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize, and the Distinguished Alumni Award from Kean University. Currently director of the Carriage House Poetry Series (http://carriagehousepoetryseries.blog...) and poetry editor for Tiferet Journal, she is active in readings and conducts both agency-sponsored and private poetry workshops. Her poetry collection, What Matters (view the trailer under "Videos" at left), received the 2012 International Book Award for Poetry and may be ordered vi ...more

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	What Matters: Poems 4.79 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing at All: Poems 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Chosen Ghosts it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1986	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Photographic Cases: Victorian Design Sources 1840-1870 (A Schiffer Book for Collectors) 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Castles and Dragons: An Autobiography it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Kite & Other Poems from Childhood it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Not Asking What If it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Staffordshire Spaniels (A Schiffer Book for Collectors) 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1997 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Staffordshire Figures: History in Earthenware 1740-1900 (A Schiffer Book for Collectors) by Adele Kenny (Goodreads Author), Veronica Moriarty it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“If you believe it, it is.”
― Adele Kenny, A Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing at All: Poems

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“Whatever we came for isn't here, only remember or wish, if we think in those terms—and nothing to keep us (no token, no resemblance of things), nothing to carry home.”
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“Suddenly (like walking into a light you know) you discover this: the certainty that nothing is certain, the deep relief of your own incredible smallness."
(From "Even If You Could Explain It Completely")”
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“We who choose to surround ourselves
with lives even more temporary than our
own, live within a fragile circle;
easily and often breached.
Unable to accept its awful gaps,
we would still live no other way.
We cherish memory as the only
certain immortality, never fully
understanding the necessary plan.”
― Irving Townsend

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“If you believe it, it is.”
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“What never happened will never change."
(from "Oh, Leonardo")”
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¡ POETRY ! — 22562 members — last activity Jan 26, 2026 02:43PM
No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read No pretensions: just poetry. Stop by, recommend books, offer up poems (excerpted), tempt us, taunt us, tell us what to read and where to go (to read it!) Goodreads honors wordsmiths: poets and poetry promoted and prompted here. ~~~ "Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." -- Carl Sandburg “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” —Anne Sexton On Clouds – “…what primitive tastes the ancients must have had if their poets were inspired by those absurd, untidy clumps of mist, idiotically jostling one another about…” —Yevgeny Zamyatin “If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn’t wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.” —Donald Hall “Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle, cracked ice crunching in pails, the night that numbs the leaf, the duel of two nightingales, the sweet pea that has run wild, Creation’s tears in shoulder blades.” —Boris Pasternak “Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.” —Charles Simic “Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.” —Gustave Flaubert “Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It’s that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that’s what the poet does.” —Allen Ginsberg. ~~~~~ Amy King, Moderator Amy King is the recipient of the 2015 Winner of the WNBA Award (Women’s National Book Association). Her latest collection, The Missing Museum, is a winner of the 2015 Tarpaulin Sky Book Prize. She serves on the executive board of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and is co-editing with Heidi Lynn Staples the anthology, Big Energy Poets of the Anthropocene: When Ecopoets Think Climate Change. She is also co-editing the anthology, Bettering American Poetry 2015, and is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. ...more

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message 9: by Louise

Jan 18, 2012 07:56PM

Thanks for the add. :)

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message 8: by Adele

Jan 18, 2012 02:05PM

Dear Friends,

I'd be really grateful if you'd vote for the cover of my new book (WHAT MATTERS) in the Goodreads Best Cover for Fall/Winter 2011. The book is at #112 as I write this, and I need a lot more votes. So ... if you don't mind, please consider casting a vote for WHAT MATTERS by Adele Kenny.

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/14...

The cover image, by the way, is Pre-raphaelite painter and poet Dante Rossetti's "Beata Beatrix." My publisher purchased right to use the image. The original painting is housed in London's Tate Gallery.

Many thanks,
Adele

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message 7: by Adele

Sep 14, 2011 04:43AM

Hi Jesse,

thanks for your message. It's nice to meet you here on Goodreads.

I've added your book SONG OF GEORGE: PORTRAIT OF AN UNLIKELY HOLY MAN and will order from Amazon this week. I wonder if you might do me a favor and add my newest book WHAT MATTERS as a To-Read on your list? I'd be very grateful!

All the best,
Adele

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message 6: by Jesse

Sep 13, 2011 07:42PM

Dear Adele, Thank you for including me among your friends here on goodreads. I'm very impressed by your prolific work in getting these many books finished. I have added The Kite & Other Poems from Childhood. I want to wish you all success in all your endeavors.
I hope you won't mind if I ask you to consider my spiritual allegory, Song of George: Portrait of an Unlikely Holy Man, for your reading list. It's fiction but is inspired by events from my life.
Namaste, jesse

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message 5: by Adele

Aug 31, 2011 01:58PM

Thanks so much, Marc! Nice to meet you here on Goodreads!

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message 4: by Adele

Aug 29, 2011 02:32AM

So nice to meet you here on Goodreads!

Best wishes,
Adele

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message 3: by Rai

Aug 28, 2011 07:29PM