ABOUTAnn Keniston is a poet-scholar interested in the relation of the creative to the scholarly. She is the author of two poetry collections, Somatic (Terrapin 2020) and The Caution of Human Gestures (Wordtech 2005), and a chapbook, November Wasps: Elegies (Finishing Line 2013). She is also the coeditor of The New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology (McFarland 2012). A recipient of numerous Nevada Arts Council fellowships and grants in poetry as well as fellowships from Sierra Arts (Reno) and the Somerville (MA) Arts Council, she has held residencies at the CAMAC Arts Center (France), the Ucross Foundation, the Ragdale Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center, and elsewhere. Her poems have appeared in over thirty journals, including Yale Review, Gettysburg Review, Water-Stone, and Literary Imagination. A professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she teaches poetry workshops and literature classes, she lives in Reno.
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SELECTED BOOKS
"These are startling, beautiful poems, palpable with intelligence and the long reach of their author’s compassion."
—Lee Upton |
"Ann Keniston's quiet, passionate, wonderfully intelligent voice finds a way to give emotion, thought, and word a quiet gravity and grace that is unique in American poetry...these poems are superb exemplars of the mind in motion in which transparency of word matches exactly the density of thought and integrity of emotion."
—Tom Sleigh |
"[W]hat may be the definitive representation of the 21st century's troubled first decade. This brilliant anthology insists on the importance of public poetry."
—Michael Davidson |
