Kerry Ryan has written the (or one of the) first collection of poems focused on boxing: Vs. You feel like you’re in the gym with Ryan: throwing punches, getting hit, lifting the medicine ball.  Ryan has a way with words that makes you want to hit and get hit.  

Enjoy a short video of the fighters at Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club acting out Ryan’s poems.

Tune into Black Coffee Poet Monday March 13, 2011 for a review of “Drivers at the Short Time Motel” by award winning Pilipino American poet Eugene Gloria.