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Celticly Wild, Teutonically Fussy
An Interview with X. J. Kennedy
By: Ernest Hilbert
X. J. Kennedy was born in Dover, NJ in 1929, the son of a boiler factory timekeeper.… continue reading...
Month: April 2008
A Prince in Motley
Peeping Tom’s Cabin: Comic Verse 1928-2008, by X. J. Kennedy. BOA Editions, 2007. $17.00pb.
Reviewed By: David Mason
Here it is, folks, almost free of charge-another taxonomical declaration!… continue reading...
CPR Classic Readings
Reviewed By: Jan Schreiber
Read: X. J. Kennedy’s “The Pacifier”
It’s rare nowadays to find maxims and adages embedded in poems, though verses were once a common and accepted way of transmitting received wisdom.… continue reading...
A More Bizarre Proteus
In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1961-2007 by X. J. Kennedy. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
Reviewed By: Catherine Tufariello
… continue reading...I like poems where you don’t really know whether to laugh or cry when you read them.
The Poet of Play: Sonny Williams on X. J. Kennedy
Read: X. J. Kennedy and KidLit
I first heard X. J. Kennedy read in West Chester, Pennsylvania. I was in a lecture hall at the local university, weary and dispirited from an overdose of “serious” poetry readings, and I glanced at the doorway, deliberating on whether or not I should make my escape to the local bar.… continue reading...
