Carolynn Kingyens

I was born and raised in Northeast Philadelphia, where St. Anselm's carnivals rivaled Disney World, and where Rocky Balboa was crowned king of the underdog.

Music was my first teacher of poetry. That's where I learned beat, irony, wordplay, and forward movement in poetry, which makes sense as poetry and music often run parallel, sometimes intersecting.

I often draw inspiration from the Ernest Hemingway quote: "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."

Today, I live with my husband, and two kind, funny, and creative daughters in New York City.


Excerpt from "The Weight of Words"

Some words bear enough 
weight
to incite mass mobs 

in closed spaces, 

words like FIRE!

words like He has a Gun!


https://artsfuse.org/195796/poetry-review-before-the-big-bang-makes-a-sound-poetry-of-common-cause/