Kennedy, Lillian (1953 - )

Genre: Poetry

Lillian Kennedy is a family law attorney and poet who was born in Maine, raised on Munjoy Hill in Portland, Maine, and lives in Auburn.

She received a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Southern Maine in 1975 and a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law in 1978. She's an MFA student at USM's Stonecoast.

Her poetry appears regularly in Wolf Moon Journal and has been published in Animus, Cider Press Review, and The Cafe Review, among other titles. She has had work exhibited with the sculpture of Kerstin Engman at the USM Lewiston-Auburn College gallery in 2003 and included in Off the Record (2004), an anthology of poetry by lawyers.

She co-edited A Sense of Place, Collected Maine Poems (2002, with Alice Persons and Nancy Henry).

Selected Bibliography

  • Tomorrow After Night (2003)
  • Notions (2004)
  • Leavings (2005)

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