John Hennessy has published two poems, "Oil Tank Farm" and "Family Man in the Valley," in the Spring 2022 issue of The Massachusetts Review.
Hennessy's translations of poems by Ukrainian poet Yuri Andrukhovych, with Ostap Kin, have recently appeared in The New York Review of Books and The New Statesman, and are forthcoming in The TLS.
In 2020 Hennessy and Kin published A New Orthography, a book of translations of Serhiy Zhadan's poems written since the start of the Russo-Ukrainian War (2014-present). With more of the world's attention focused on Ukraine since the Russian attacks intensified in February, there has been much interest in Ukrainian literature abroad. Poems from A New Orthography have recently been reprinted in the US, UK, and India. The Museum of Modern Art in New York has a show of Ukrainian artworks on display; one of the paintings is accompanied by a bilingual passage from a poem Hennessy and Kin translated, and the poem in full is reprinted in MoMA's online journal.
For more on Hennessy’s work, see his faculty profile.