John Hennessy
John Hennessy is the author of two collections, Coney Island Pilgrims
and Bridge and Tunnel, and his poems appear in Asian Signature, The
Believer, Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, The Huffington Post,
Jacket, The New Republic, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The Poetry Review
(UK), Raedleaf, Poetry Ireland Review and The Yale Review. Hennessy is
the poetry editor of The Common and teaches at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst.
Poems by John Hennessy
AFTER ALEXANDRIA
What an agony not to wake up next to you.
Not to have fallen asleep with your head on my chest.
I made the bed...