“The poems are musical, tactile, beautifully built. Yenser’s poems are themselves ‘a maze / of immeasure, a wild / scoring.’”—Rebecca Aronson, author of Ghost Child of the Atalanta Bloom
“With grace, precision, and humor, Kelly Yenser captures the seasons of Kansas in a small town. Summer twilight, baseball, the beloved dogs—glimpses of the news as usual that gather into the seasons of a lifetime. Spoon River Anthology, Winesburg, Ohio—Yenser leaves them in the dust.”—Murray Moulding, author of Moon Over Easy
“In The News as Usual, Kelly Yenser has achieved a De Rerum Natura of the Great Plains through his attention to the unexpected beauty of small things and the heartbreak of loss and love.”—Mary Clearman Blew, author of Ruby Dreams of Janis Joplin: A Novel
