Coney Island Pilgrims

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By John Hennessy ’87

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(The Ashland Poetry Press) Hennessy’s second collection of poems, following Bridge and Tunnel. Poems from this volume appear in Best American Poetry 2013, The Believer, Huffington Post, Poetry, The Yale Review, and many other journals and anthologies. Hennessy teaches at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and serves as poetry editor for The Common, a new literary magazine based at Amherst College.

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