New England Poetry Club, honorary degrees from Lawrence and Adelphi Universities and Westfield State College. Kennedy received the National Council of Teachers of English Year 2000 Award for Excellence in Children's Poetry. He received the 2004 Poets' Prize for his work, The Lords of Misrule: Poems 1992-2002. Kennedy accepted the Poetry Society of America's Robert Frost Medal for lifetime service to poetry in 2009. In 2015, he received the Jackson Poetry Prize, awarded by Poets & Writers. Kennedy also wrote a series of children's poetry books (Brats), translated Aristophanes' Lysistrata into English, and edited the anthology Tygers of Wrath: Poems of Hate, Anger, and Invective (University of Georgia Press, 1981). Kennedy edited several editions of the textbook anthology Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. With his wife Dorothy and scholar Jane E. Aaron, he is the editor of The Bedford Reader, a collegiate literature textbook used for teaching to the AP English Language and Composition test. Family Kennedy has had five children and six grandchildren with his wife Dorothy Mintzlaff Kennedy (1931-2018), and he resides in Peabody, Massachusetts. Bibliography For adults Each year of first publication or revised edition links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article, for poetry, or "[year] in literature" article, for plays and prose: 1961: Nude Descending a Staircase: Poems, Songs, a Ballad New York: Doubleday (reprint edition in the Classic Contemporary Series, Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1994) 1969: Growing into Love, New York: Doubleday 1970: Bulsh, Providence, Rhode Island: Burning Deck 1971: Breaking and Entering, New York: Oxford University Press 1971: Editor, with James Camp and Keith Waldrop: Pegasus Descending: A Book of the Best Bad Verse, New York: Macmillan (Burning Deck, 2003, reprint edition) 1974: Emily Dickinson in Southern California, Boston: Godine 1974: Celebrations after the Death of John Brennan, Lincoln, Massachusetts: Penmaen 1975: With James Camp and Keith Waldrop, Three Tenors, One Vehicle, Columbia, Missouri: Open Places Poet Series 1981: Editor: Tygers of Wrath: Poems of Hate, Anger, and Invective, with wood engravings by Michael McCurdy, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press 1983: Translator: French Leave: Translations, (from the French), Edgewood, Kentucky: Robert L. Barth 1983: Missing Link, Secaucus, New Jersey: Scheidt Head 1984: Hangover Mass, Cleveland: Bits Press 1985: Cross Ties: Selected Poems, Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press 1990: Winter Thunder, Edgewood, Kentucky: Robert L. Barth 1992: Dark Horses: New Poems, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 1994: Jimmy Harlow,