“Quizzical, meditative, wondering, Mel Kenne’s tone of voice marks him out as a true original, and one with a delightfully wry sense of humor. Kenne also dispenses a fund of down-to-earth good sense, something one does not always find in lyric poetry.”

— John Ash, on Take

“I love the quality of mind, the unpretentious way of being in the world and reflecting on it, in Mel Kenne’s poems. He achieves a kind of expansiveness, a sense of being unconstrained and totally himself…Like Whitman, like Frank O’Hara, he is eminently companionable, and his presence on the page is somehow very reassuring in its acceptance of the human condition, with, in his words, ‘life’s weight of joy uncertainty and grief.’ ”

— Richard Tillinghast, on Take

“Kenne does not grandstand the pathos of his situations, but focuses the poem as a documentary on a range of ordinary events — waiting for buses, or dawdling away an afternoon over aimless thoughts…or bickering with self over the purchase of a book of poems with his last five dollars.”

— Paul Christensen, on Eating the Fruit

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