John Hennessy

John Hennessy is the author of the collections Exit Garden State (Lost Horse Press, 2024/Eastern Washington UP), Coney Island Pilgrims (Ashland Poetry Press, 2013), and Bridge and Tunnel (Turning Point, 2007). His poems have been published in journals and anthologies including The Believer, Best American Poetry, Harvard Review, The Huffington Post, Jacket, The New Republic, Poetry, Poetry at Sangam, Poetry Ireland Review, and The Yale Review. 

He is cotranslator with Ostap Kin of A New Orthography (Lost Horse Press, 2020), selected poems by Serhiy Zhadan, which was a finalist for the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation in 2021 and won the Derek Walcott Prize 2021. Hennessy and Kin also translated the anthology Babyn Yar: Ukrainian Poets Respond (Harvard University Press, 2023). Their translations of poems by Yuri Andrukhovych have been published in The New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The New Statesman, and Set Change, a forthcoming book of Andrukhovych’s selected poems in translation from New York Review Books. Hennessy is the poetry editor of The Common and teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.