Mark Kessinger Member Member since 2025

Poetry: your other real life!

Poetry

Mark Kessinger writes poetry as a series of thought experiments—testing the limits of language, perception, and meaning. His work favors brevity, momentum beyond the line, and a kind of Zen ambiguity, often inviting the reader to become a collaborator in the poem’s discovery. Mark was born in Huntington WV, attended college at Cleveland State U., lived in Oklahoma City and now resides in Houston TX. He is a two-year recipient of a creative writing scholarship from CSU, a founding member and president of the Houston Council of Writers, and former editor of Voices from Big Thicket. Author of two volumes of poetry, His work has appeared in +150 publications and four anthologies.

Author of:

• The Exploded View, by Cleveland State Press.
• The Book of Joe by Cleveland State Press.

Contributor to:

• From Both Sides Now, ed. Phillip Mahony.
• Inheritance of Light, ed. Ray Gonzalez.
• The Longest Possible Light- Voices of Cleveland.
• Enchantment of the Ordinary, ed. John Gorman

Location:

Kingwood, TX

Birthdate:

1 September

Social:

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