Reyn Kinzey - Poet

An 11th century book called Lebor Gabala Erin, or The Book of Invasions, attempts to explain the origins of the Irish people. From a...

By the time I was 35 both my parents and my best friend were dead. Death is sadly all around us. During the pandemic, I lost two more...

Driving in Ireland can be a bit of a challenge, although I’ve always enjoyed it. Staying to the left is no problem, because the driver’s...

In Evangeline Walton’s imaginative retelling of the Welsh Mabinogion, Pwyll, Prince of Dyved, meets Annwnn, the Prince of Death. Through...

It’s not unusual to see dolphins in the Ware River, about a 20-minute paddle from where we put in on Wilson Creek. The Ware empties into...

In the movie 1492, Christopher Columbus’s son Diego comments that his father would often wistfully say, “if only I could get beyond the...

Well, it doesn’t read like James Joyce. It’s not meant to read like James Joyce. But ultimately, After Our Exile comes from the same...

Friends from the North – particularly Jewish friends – are often surprised that I grew up in a Richmond, Virginia that is home to a large...

Easter once again has me thinking of Dragon Run, the cypress swamp that marks the boundaries of Gloucester and Middlesex Counties. I’ve...

I was not a happy child. In retrospect, I’m not sure why. I had good and loving parents. With my grandmother and her eccentric siblings...

I think I commented earlier that sometimes with wind and rain even the main channel of Wilson Creek becomes too choppy to enjoy, so we...

In the Roman Catholic tradition, ‘triduum” refers to the three central days of Easter: Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter itself,...

Like it or not, the calendar has a way of sneaking up on us. I wrote this poem during advent in 2008. You can prepare for advent or not,...

Sometimes, with wind and rain, even the main channel of Wilson Creek gets too choppy to enjoy. On those days, we often tuck into the...

I wrote Vicksburg’s Falling on July 5, 2008, the day after the July 4 celebrations I didn’t attend. I would be just as happy if this were...

Here are a very few words on how to achieve a transcendental experience in nature. First, get yourself alone on the water or mountain or...

Maddie in the Rain is the first of several Easter poems in Chasing the Dragon, but you might not realize that if you don’t know Latin....

The Tides at Gloucester is a pivotal poem for me. It marks the moment that I realized, city person as I remain, it’s the world of river,...

We all want happy endings. In literature, we demand happy endings. Think of the ending of Lord of the Rings. Frodo and Sam trapped on a...

I always try to tell stories with my poems, and for the most part, I try to keep abstraction to a minimal and stick to concrete, sensual...