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New in 2025

Where Eternity Is Learned
A Memoir in Poems

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Hard Bound with Dust Jacket

Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers (New York, NY)

Publication Date: March 25, 2025

ISBN: 978-1-56649-433-5

71 Pages 46 Poems


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"Adele Kenny’s new book, Where Eternity Is Learned, is a skillfully crafted and intensely centered collection. Written in a range of styles (narrative, lyrical, lineated, prose, and experimental), these poems are defined by Kenny’s signature imagery, distinctive metaphor, masterful control of phrasing and line, and perfectly paced sonic impression. Forged from the crucible of elegy and celebration, this collection achieves a virtuoso interaction between language and life. These are poems that continue to resonate long after their reading is done. They reach courageously and affirmatively into reflections on grief and gladness toward the inherent grace that defines our humanity."

From Maria Mazziotti Gillan, American Book Award Winner:

"I first heard Adele Kenny read, with Allen Ginsberg and David Ignatow, when she was a Paterson Great Falls poetry contest winner in the late 1970s. I’ve followed her work ever since. Her poems are either elegantly lyrical, gracefully narrative, or thoughtfully experimental. The poems in Where Eternity Is Learned are profoundly human and deeply spiritual. Skillfully compressed and superbly crafted with precise attention to detail, Adele’s imagery is always compelling and memorable. I love these poems as I’ve loved Adele’s poems for more than forty-five years. This is a collection you don’t want to miss!"

From Charles DeFanti, Author of The Wages of Expectation:

"The poems in Adele Kenny’s Where Eternity Is Learned resonate for readers on many levels.  She skillfully controls phrasing and line, while her poems masterfully balance language and emotion. Her imagery is especially tantalizing, as she toes a delicate line between the mystical and the material. Each poem conveys a story in Kenny’s unique voice, which still prompts us to plunge into our own life experiences. No one will encounter these poems unmoved."

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  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Welcome Rain Publishers
  • Publication Date: December 5, 2019
  • ISBN-10: 1566494052
  • ISBN-13: 978-1566494052
  • Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.2 x 9 inches
  • 40 Ekphrastic Prose Poems Based on Paintings by Various Artists
  • Descriptions of All Paintings
  • A unique feature of the book is the inclusion QR codes for each of the paintings. Using their smart phones or mobile devices and a free QR code scanning application, readers can view the paintings while they are reading the poems


From Renée Ashley: Compressed and brilliant in their philosophical and imagistic scintillations, the prose poems in Adele Kenny’s Wind Over Stones are of one piece in both voice and intensity of gaze.  Through each artwork she has chosen as her lens, she seems to be saying, If we look hard enough and long enough, and with just the right slant of light, we can see through these paintings into ourselves. Her vision embodies, without presumption, the knowledge that, as John Muir told us, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” Kenny tells us, “This kind of purity comes to us without intention—in ordinary things that are anything but ordinary….” She paints it for us herself: “A flurry of bats becomes the Milky Way, and we make no pretense of understanding the infinite (deep inside us), our need to become nothing before we unname ourselves and disappear.” Everything is connected, and through the language of fairytale, examination, and prayer—the same language, after all—each of Kenny’s poems is a gem in a garland of gems. 

Publisher's Comments: This unique collection of ekphrastic poems continues Adele Kenny’s reflections on the spiritual condition of being. Despite loss and change, she looks into the dark without flinching and finds light among the shadows. Using ekphrasis as a rhetorical device and combined with Kenny’s signature elements of technical proficiency, hauntingly lucid imagery, and compelling immediacy, these poems filter and record experience in startling ways as they journey across aging’s inevitable arc. Hardwired by Kenny’s understanding of the human spirit, these poems offer us insights into the healing power of attention and awareness.


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Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist

 A Lightness, A Thirst, or Nothing at All
 Welcome Rain Publishers

 ISBN: 9781566493963 
 Hardcover with Dust Jacket
 52 Prose Poems
 $15.00



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"These poems venture deeply into that place where, “What never happened will never change.” It is that place where our past regrets, lost loved ones and former selves live on. But in Kenny’s vividly imagined poems it is not a haunted place.  It is alive with the sounds of birds, wind, surf; filled with larkspur and moss, hawks, squirrels and crickets; the smell of mud, old houses, smoke and rain-drenched trees. In language so subtly pitched, paced and modulated it captures our attention without drawing attention to itself, Kenny draws us into discovering that what never changes is all around us in the ever-changing world, that one is only approachable, knowable, bearable through the other. We trust her to be our guide because her vision is so unwavering. She refuses to turn aside from anything she perceives, but this resolve hasn’t hardened her. To write or read such poems requires a deepening of empathy and compassion."                                  
                    
  — Martin J. Farawell 
        Director, Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival


Intensely focused, compressed, and sharp-edged, these prose poems by Adele Kenny take the spiritual journey into heightened awareness of experience, place, and identity. Deliberate fragments, the language of dreams, and an occasional nod to the surreal combine with Kenny’s signature elements of striking imagery and compelling immediacy to inform an enhanced vision of the ways in which the interior life intersects with the outside world. These poems startle, surprise, and tell us things about ourselves that we didn’t know.

                            —Welcome Rain Publishers


Hardwired by Kenny’s gift for dimension and her profound understanding of the human spirit, the poems in this collection show us the healing power of attention and awareness. Kenny’s words move associatively (and swiftly) through image and sound, and she makes a particular music that is uniquely her own. Impelled by lyrical precision, these poems cast light on what we are learning, and what we already know, about ourselves. This collection contemplates the ways in which the “interior life and the outside world intersect” and is a must-read for anyone interested in looking beneath the surface of things. In addition, through the process of these poems, Kenny leads us to see that, as C. S. Lewis wrote of the spiritual journey, '… there must be a real giving up of the self.'

                             —Alex Pinto, Tiferet, Spring 2015


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What Matters

Welcome Rain Publishers

ISBN-10: 1566490790
ISBN-13: 978-1566490795
47 Poems
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
$15.00

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Winner of the 2012 International Book Award for Poetry

These poems are eloquent, candid, straightforward and genuine. (Robert Pinsky, U.S. Poet Laureate 1997-2000)

[Adele's poems] intrigue and more. (Sir Christopher Ricks, British Literary Critic and Scholar, Oxford Professor of Poetry 2004-2009)

In Adele Kenny's finely wrought meditations on grief and loss, she never forgets that she's a maker of poems; in other words, that the poem in its entirety is more important than any one of its utterances, phrasings, or laments. What Matters straddles two of the exigencies of the human condition: diminishment and endurance. It abounds with poems that skillfully earn their sentiments. (Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry)

These are poems that come to (poetic) grips with the issues of grief, fear, and death … focused in a new and strong way. (Gerald Stern, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, National Book Award Recipient)

From the Dust Jacket Front Flap: We’re all survivors of one thing or another, and these meticulously crafted poems by Adele Kenny tell us that we’re not alone. Intimate rather than private, the poems in What Matters are characterized by startling imagery, rich metaphor, and a compelling sense of immediacy. The book begins with meditations on the past and what has been lost (as Shakespeare wrote, “…what’s past is prologue”). Section two moves through the diagnosis and treatment of a life-threatening illness, and section three demonstrates how loss, grief, and illness can teach us how to live. Intensely lyrical and sometimes edgy, these poems are about the human spirit’s transcendent nature—the immanent “something more.” 

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The Kite & Other Poems from Childhood 
Finishing Line Press

ISBN: 1-59924-370-9/
ISBN: 978-1-59924-370-2
Size 5" x 8"   
Saddle Stitched    
29 pages

Poems Written by Adele When She Was 
Between the Ages of 4 & 10
$12.00

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Adele Kenny’s The Kite & Other Poems from Childhood is more than just surprising – it’s astonishing! “Look,” this little girl says, “how the leaves make / A doily in the sky”! She projects the word as a single bright star to wish upon – such hope and lucid vision! These poems are devout without being precious, poignant without being clichéd. Young Kenny demonstrates a startling wisdom – and a bright gift for articulating her world’s intricate newness.
    
                 (Renée Ashley, Author of The Revisionist’s Dream)

Adele Kenny’s sense of the lyrical phrase is impeccable. I know of no poet more dedicated to the perfectly crafted poem. Most importantly, I know of no other poet who achieves this perfection as often. It is a pleasure to see her first entering the language (before the age of ten!), and through that entrance, learning to give order to her world – purposefully, joyfully, with the full innocence of childhood. Her talent, careful love of language, and wonder at the natural world were present even then.   

                                      (Joe Weil, Author of What Remains)



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Chosen Ghosts
Muse-Pie Press

ISBN: 0-918453-17-8
6" x 9"   Perfect Bound   
112 pages
67 Poems
$12.95


It is seldom that a bard emerges among us, but Adele Kenny is one of these. Seldom have I known a poet or writer of any stripe to drag the soul over such rough shoals toward redemption. I offer gratitude and blessings to her and her glorious Irish/Hungarian forebears. (Malachy McCourt, author of A Monk Swimming and Singing My Him Song)
     
The poems in Chosen Ghosts are mystical, celebratory, powerful. They exalt experience in a spirit that recalls Blake, Yeats, and Eliot yet speak to us in a voice that is distinctively and hauntingly Adele Kenny's own. (William Maxwell, Novelist, Short Story Writer, 40-Year New Yorker Editor) 
   
The poems in Chosen Ghosts are enlightened, graceful and giving, beautifully crafted. (Gerald Stern, 1998 National Book Award Winner)     
  


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Staffordshire Figures: 

History in Earthenware 1740-1900 

(with Veronica Moriarty)
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 

ISBN: 0-7643-1917-5 
8" x 11" 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket 
240 Pages 
568 Color Photos & Sketches 
$59.95 


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Called "a milestone in Staffordshire literature" by Denise Sater, editor of Antiques & Auction News (Vol. 35, No. 4), Staffordshire Figures: History in Earthenware 1740-1900, co-authored by Adele Kenny and Veronica Moriarty, is available from Schiffer Publishing. This unique 2004 release is a meticulously researched volume that offers an in-depth look at the cultural, socio-economic, religious, political, and technological conditions that defined the subject matter of English Staffordshire figures made during the 18th and 19th centuries. Each chapter is a self-contained study of the potteries, the potters, and various categories of pre-Victorian and Victorian figures. This is an essential reference for inclusive and special category collectors, dealers, designers, historians, and curators. Books may be ordered through local booksellers, directly from Schiffer (610-593-1777) or through other booksellers via the Internet.



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At The Edge of the Woods
 
Muse-Pie Press 

ISBN: 0-918453-14-3
8" x 11"
Perfect Bound 
170 pages 
129 Haiku, Senryu, and Sequences
Out of Print, Limited Copies Available
$13.95

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An Archaeology of Ruins
 
New Dimensions of the 80's Publishers 

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 81-84091
5" x 8"
Perfect Bound 
52 pages 
26 Poems 
$12.95

Out of Print, Limited Copies Available 



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Staffordshire Animals
 
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. 

ISBN: 0-7643-0422-4
8" x 11" 
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket 
192 Pages 
415 Photos & Illustrations 
$49.95 

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Photographic Cases

Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.

ISBN: 0-7643-1267-7
8" x 11"Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
176 Pages
454 Illustrations 
$59.95
 
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Castles and Dragons
 
Muse-Pie Press

ISBN:0-918453-10-0
5" x 8"
Perfect Bound 
110 Pages 
90 Haiku and Senryu 
Illustrated 
Out of Print, Limited Copies Available 
$12.95 

Merit Book Award Winner, 1991

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Starship Earth

Press Here

ISBN: 1-878798-01-4
5" x 8"
Saddle Stitched
22 Pages
47 Environmental Haiku
with Translations from "The Canticle of the Sun" by St. Francis of Assisi
$5.00

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Staffordshire Spaniels 

Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.

ISBN: 0-7643-0216-7
8" x 11"
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
144 Pages 
292 Photos & Illustrations 
$39.95

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