Kendall A. Bell is a Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net nominated poet from New Jersey. Kendall is the author of five full length collections, "The Roads Don't Love You" (2018), "the forced hush of quiet" (2019), "the shallows" (2022), "all of this bruising" (2024), "all i have in my hands" (2025), and 38 chapbooks, the latest being "wherever you are", from Crying Heart Press. Kendall is the publisher/editor of Maverick Duck Press and editor and founder of Chantarelle's Notebook.
Trust Fall by Kendall A. Bell is a very well-written and cohesive collection of poetry. Throughout the book , Bell mediates on themes such as loss, death, and anxiety that not only jabs the reader in the stomach, but it also forces them to see the harsh realities of life behind the poet's eyes. This chapbook is a must read!
Kendall A. Bell doesn't sugar coat with any of the poems within "Trust Fall", and because of that, the collection is honest and filled with raw emotion. These poems are stark in their openness. His poetry is never clinical or devoid of humanity, and that is what keeps me coming back to read each collection he releases.