Cyn Kitchen is professor and chair of English at Knox College where she teaches literature and creative writing. She is the author of Ten Tongues, a collection of short stories. A lifelong resident of Knox County, Illinois, Cyn lives in the country on a slab of land at the border of trees and prairie where she finds solace in the dirt, the creeks and among the creatures she shares space with including four cats, two dogs and a small flock of chickens. Broken Hallelujah is her first book of poems.
PRAISE:
The best writers are keen observers and in Broken Hallelujah Cyn Kitchen shows how closely she watches the world and then articulates the holiness she finds in everyday life. She witnesses the miraculous and reports to us about it in poems that make this collection feel like the prayer book–and the balm–I need right now, never sentimental but always tender, refusing to look away from the deepest despair even as it finds light in the darkness.
–Silas House, ’24-’25 Poet Laureate of Kentucky, NY Times bestselling author of Lark Ascending and more.
“…it’s a prayer and an acknowledgment of the fleeting nature of life, and I love how those feelings of both reverence and frustration coexist. It’s a collection that breathes with rural resonance, sincerity, complexity, and a powerful sense of vulnerability.”
–Phillip Shabazz, poet and teacher, author of Flames of Fire, When the Grass was Blue and more.
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