Kevin Boyle is an award-winning poet with three published collections and numerous poems appearing in highly respected periodicals. He grew up in Philadelphia and received degrees from Penn, Boston and Iowa. He has taught writing and literature in New York, Iowa and North Carolina, where he currently lives with his wife.
once it opens – poetry
once it opens includes poems that speak about birds and a bee, garlic and pecans, fathers in Ireland and Italy, with a Catholic backstory and a hint of despair. And while Death says, "Look at me, look," the writer plays with words, cracks a joke on the head of an angel, and remembers a life lived among paperboys, immigrants, and the bleak song of history.
Early praise for once it opens
“Kevin Boyle is a surgeon and sculptor in these lovely poems that carve out memories, dreams, reflections—and a call for (poetic) justice.
His lyric touch and joyful ironies are central to his curious mindset and his ‘genuine new worlds.’
Kevin cherishes the ethical utterance here and the heartfelt sounds and sense of a good story.”
—William Allen, author of The Birth of the Atlantic and other poetry collections