John Kenney is the New York Times bestselling author of the humorous poetry collections Love Poems for Married People, Love Poems for People with Children, and Love Poems for Anxious People, and the novels Talk to Me and Truth in Advertising, which won the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He has worked for many years as a copywriter. He has also been a contributor to The New Yorker since 1999. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Kenney's sweet, funny poems about the banal and everyday-too-true nods to the intimacy of sharing a bed with someone without touching at all, or the nothing-speak of corporate communication-make great presents for spouses, friends, and work wives. -Vanity Fair It's a witty reflection on the humiliations of work before and during the covid-19 pandemic. -The Washington Post A compendium of love poems to the we-never-thought-we'd-miss-it banality of office life-and a few clearly recent additions to our 'offices' at home. -Vanity Fair The fourth installment in John Kenney's bestselling 'Love Poems' series, this ode to office politics in the Zoom-era is spot-on, hilarious, timely, and just brilliant. -GMA.com The third installment in John Kenney's hilarious trifecta of tounge-in-cheek, laugh-out-loud poems, this New Yorker contributor's slim book pokes fun at everything we take for granted about #worklife. -Zibby Owens for Katie Couric Media ...Maybe the release is perfect timing-if readers want to fantasize about falling in love over lukewarm coffee and barely legible spreadsheets. -Willamette Week