A traditional Asian landscape painting featuring a serene setting with a thatched-roof house nestled among rocky cliffs and sparse trees. Mist partially obscures the background, conveying a sense of tranquility and depth. The composition includes gently cascading rocks and finely detailed foliage.
A traditional Asian landscape painting featuring a serene setting with a thatched-roof house nestled among rocky cliffs and sparse trees. Mist partially obscures the background, conveying a sense of tranquility and depth. The composition includes gently cascading rocks and finely detailed foliage.
Poetry
a page in progress . . .
coming soon, little by little . . .
  • links to some poems you can read online
  • links to sites where you can order Tenney's books

  • some excerpts from recent work in progress or from a forthcoming book publication

  • news about a new poetry book currently "in press"

some poems or sections of books available to read online:
some selections from my forthcoming book-length serial poem "Ghost Snow 2: Unwinding (2010-2022)" which will be published by Chax
some places you can order books of poetry I've written:

Home on the Range (The Night Sky with Stars in My Mouth), O Books 2005:

PennSound: this is a terrific resource for poetry!

You can download soundfiles of several of my readings by going to my Pennsound author page

Erased Art, Chax Press 2005:

Ghost Snow Falls Through the Void (Globalization), Chax Press 2010:

& you can read a couple other selections from the book here on this site

Here's a link to a video of a reading I gave in the Enclave series during the pandemic--the season Charles Alexander, David Weiss, and I hosted the series, which was started in March 2020 by Jeanne Heuving and Rae Armantrout. The other reader on the program that day was Daphne Marlett--it was definitely a delight and an honor to get to read with her!

Contact Tenney

Reach out to Tenney about Desert Rain Zen or about his Zen teachings, poetry, or literary scholarship.