Jon Kelly Yenser is the author of Walter's Yard and The Disambiguation of Katydids. His work has appeared in a variety of publications including Prairie Schooner, Shenandoah, and Elysian Fields Quarterly.

Books by Jon Kelly Yenser:

Other poems on the web by Jon Kelly Yenser:
Four poems

About The News as Usual:

"In The News as Usual, Kelly Yenser has achieved a De Rerum Natura of the Great Plains through his attention to the unexpected beauty of small things and the heartbreak of loss and love."
—Mary Clearman Blew

"The poems are musical, tactile, beautifully built. Yenser's poems are themselves 'a maze / of immeasure, a wild / scoring.'"
—Rebecca Aronson

"With grace, precision, and humor, Kelly Yenser captures the seasons of Kansas in a small town. Summer twilight, baseball, the beloved dogs—glimpses of the news as usual that gather into the seasons of a lifetime. Spoon River Anthology, Winesburg, Ohio—Yenser leaves them in the dust."
—Murray Moulding