Richard Kenney is a poet whose technical skill, emotional depth, and intellectual resonance are showcased in his five books of poems: The One-Strand River: Poems 1994–2007; The Evolution of the Flightless Bird, winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize; Orrey; The Invention of the Zero, and Terminator (Knopf, 2019). A recipient of the Lannan Literary Prize, Kenney serves as the Grace M. Pollock Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Washington.

Vanishing Point

An iPoem

by Richard Kenney

The kissed fingerpad touched wet with wine
Orbiting the crystal rim: ring,

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