RICHARD KENNEY | Tender Precison

On Thursday, October 17, Richard Kenney reads at Seattle Central Community College’s Broadway Performance Hall. His new book Terminator is out now from Knopf.

To mark the occasion, we’re spotlighting the work of this extraordinary poet, including three poems that appear (some in slightly different form) in the book.

MORE OF A RIVER | Essay

Jason Whitmarsh on Richard Kenney

Kenney’s work is as alive and thrilling and fully human as anything I’ve read. It’s the result of an extraordinarily curious mind and a world that is deeply felt—and it somehow includes us in that mind and in that experience.

PLAY FOR MORTAL STAKES | Interview

A conversation between Jake Uitti and Richard Kenney

How does cutting get us to the truth?

THREE POEMS

And More Vivalding

Civics

Sword Upstairs