Adele Kenny is the author of 21 books (poetry and nonfiction). Over 600 of her poems, articles, and reviews have been published in journals throughout North and South America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and Asia, as well as in books and anthologies published by Crown, Mc-Graw Hill, and Tuttle. She served as associate editor of The Antiquer: Fine Art & Antiques from 2000-2005 and is currently poetry editor of Tiferet: A Journal of Spiritual Literature ( http://tiferetjournal.com/ ).

Adele is the recipient of various honors and awards, including poetry fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts. She received an award for the 2007 Merton Poetry of the Sacred Prize, honorable mention in the 2006 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards, and was a finalist for the 2006 Paumanok Poetry Award. She has also been awarded first place Merit Book and Henderson Awards, a Writer's Digest Poetry Award, and has received several Pushcart Prize nominations. One of her poems appeared on the marquee of the Rialto West Theater in NYC as part of the 42nd Street Art Project, and her book Staffordshire Animals has been cited by Home and Garden Television (Episode COL-713).

Adele directs the Carriage House Poetry Reading Series, which she founded in 1998 (see http://carriagehousepoetryseries.blogspot.com), and has been director of the Fanwood Arts Council since 1999. She has been a featured poet at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and is active as a featured reader in a wide range of venues. She has worked as a Grants Review Panelist for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and the Union County Division of Cultural and Heritage Affairs and has also been a presenter, poetry workshop leader, and artist-in-residence for numerous agencies and organizations, including state and county Teen Arts Festivals, the NJ State Department of Education, Symposium for the Arts, and Very Special Arts Festivals (serving the handicapped).

Certified by the State of New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety, Division of Criminal Justice, Police Training Commission, Adele has been teaching courses in police report writing at the John H. Stamler Police Academy in Scotch Plains, NJ since 1999. Her teaching background includes 20 years full-time employment as a secondary-level English teacher, creative writing specialist, and teacher of the gifted and talented (Rahway, NJ Public Schools). She has also worked as an adjunct professor teaching graduate-level courses in creative writing at the College of New Rochelle (NY), satellite courses at Rockland County Community College (NY), and for the Middlesex County College Division of Community Education (NJ).

Adele is listed with Poets and Writers, Inc.

	Adele’s Newest Books
	Adele’s new chapbook, The Kite & Other Poems from Childhood (Finishing Line Press), contains two dozen poems written by Adele between the ages of four and ten. The poems invite adult readers to remember their own childhoods and are appropriate for even the youngest readers – a perfect Christmas, holiday, or special occasion gift for the child in you, for family members and friends, and for the children in your life.
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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
	Another chapbook will be released this autumn by Muse-Pie Press as the first in its essay series. Click here www.musepiepress.com for publication announcements.