Chet Kane

Born in Rockaway, Queens in 1934, Chester L. Kane moved to Manhattan with his family at a young age where he has lived and worked a majority of his life. New York City's energy and vitality has had an indelible influence on his poetry. His short and intense style, similar to Haiku, reflects a crowded and noisy Manhattan where the power of a single phrase, or word, is required to be heard. Upon retirement, he began to pen short, descriptive poems that reflected his experiences and interactions...See more

Born in Rockaway, Queens in 1934, Chester L. Kane moved to Manhattan with his family at a young age where he has lived and worked a majority of his life. New York City's energy and vitality has had an indelible influence on his poetry. His short and intense style, similar to Haiku, reflects a crowded and noisy Manhattan where the power of a single phrase, or word, is required to be heard. Upon retirement, he began to pen short, descriptive poems that reflected his experiences and interactions with his surroundings in New York City. "It was like releasing stored up images," he says, not only from the years right after retirement, but back to his youth in New York City with its iconic places and people. "I'm visual person and I had kept so many vivid images in my memory." See less