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BOA's own poetry warrior Christopher Kennedy (Encouragement for a Man Falling to His Death) was just featured - and singled out for high praise - in a New Yorker article about Opium magazine's tongue-in-cheek "Literary Death Match." Christopher brought his A-game to a recent Death Match event at the Bowery Poetry Club as Meredith Blake notes in her article:
"My personal favorite was the extremely droll Kennedy, who shared from his collection of morbidly witty poems, Encouragement for a Man Falling to his Death. In one, a man coats his head in butter and flour, opens the oven door, and attempts to bake himself; in another, he tells a paramour, “I love you as if you were dead.”
Read the entire article at: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2010/01/to-the-death.html#entry-more#ixzz0djYYMY6w
