Chased by the Dawn

About the Book

Chased by the Dawn is a collection of poems spanning a lifetime of observation and experience. Humorous, touching, strident, ironic, tender, angry, insightful, encouraging, this American poet paints vivid images emerging along an eventful journey from a Missouri Ozarks boyhood to his present high desert Arizona home. Raised in a home where both the arts and humanity were highly valued, Kenneth Kennon learned to observe life experience and relate to both people and nature from his parents’ rich perspective of poet and painter. Poems in this eclectic collection explore a wide range of themes offering observations and encounters with visions of childhood, musing on growing older, life touched with discouragements and encouragements, wise lessons of nature, experiencing moments of routine, elation and grief, interactive with family and a wide community of friends and neighbors met, lost and kept, all revealing a soul’s search and discovery of beauty, justice, peace, and a sustaining faith.

About the Author

Kenneth Kennon was born and reared in a politically conservative Missouri Ozarks family. He was a Boy Scout in his youth, a security clerk for the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a young adult, and an ordained clergyman in pastoral ministry for decades before his incarceration in a federal prison for a peaceful act of conscience. Active in the protection of refugees, the Sanctuary Movement, and Pastors for Peace Caravans to Central America, he has been involved in SOA Watch efforts to close the U.S. “school of the assassins” on Fort Benning since 1992. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.