Coney Island Pilgrims
John Hennessy is the author of a previous collection,Bridge and Tunnel(Turning Point Books, 2007), and his poems appear inThe Believer,Best American Poetry 2013,Harvard Review,The Huffington Post,LIT,Jacket,The New Republic,Poetry,Southwest Review, andThe Yale Review. Hennessy went to Princeton on a Cane Scholarship and completed graduate degrees at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Arkansas. A former Amy Clampitt Fellow, he teaches at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and serves as poetry editor forThe Common.