Kevin McLellan

Poet

Cambridge, MA 02139

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Author's Bio

Kevin McLellan is the author of: the forthcoming full-length poetry collections, In Other Words You/ (2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection winner), Ornitheology (2019 Massachusetts Book Awards recipient), and Tributary; the book objects, Hemispheres (which resides in the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona and other special collections) and [box] (which resides in the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University and other special collections); and the chapbook, Round Trip.

Kevin makes videos under the name, Duck Hunting with the Grammarian, and his video Dick won Best Short Form Short at the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival and also showed in the Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival, the Tag! Queer Film Festival, the Berlin Short Film Festival, and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://kevmclellan.com/

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:

In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy (Black Lawrence Press, 2023)

Appreciating Tender Buttons: An Invitation to Play Volume I (Word Works, 2022)

Essential Voices (West Virginia University Press, 2022)

Queer Nature (Autumn House Press, 2022)

Dream of the River (Jacar Press, 2021)

Voices Amidst the Virus (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2020)

CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos & Sourcebook for Creative Writing (C&R Press, 2018)

They Said: A Multi-Genre Anthology of Contemporary Collaborative Writing (Black Lawrence Press, 2018)

Between: New Gay Poetry (Chelsea Station Editions, 2013)

Dogs Singing: A Tribute Anthology (Salmon Poetry (Ireland), 2010)

Spaces Between Us (Third World Press, 2010)

Books:

In Other Words You/ (Word Works, 2023)

Ornitheology (Word Works, 2018)

Tributary (Barrow Street Press, 2015)

Chapbooks:

Hemispheres (Fact-Simile, 2019)

[box] (Letter [r] Press, 2016)

Round Trip (Seven Kitchens Press, 2010)

Journals:

Adroit Journal

American Letters & Commentary

American Literary Review

Apple Valley Review

Architrave Press

Barrow Street

Bloom

Bombay Gin

Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review

Buddhist Poetry Review

Denver Quarterly

Dogwood: A Journal of Poetry & Prose

Drunken Boat

Elohi Gadugi Journal

Exquisite Corpse

Ghost Proposal

Glass: A Journal of Poetry

Greensboro Review

Hamilton Stone Review

Hawai'i Review

Horse Less Review

Hoxie Gorge Review

Hunger Mountain

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Interim

Jelly Bucket

Journal of Compressed Creative Arts

Kenyon Review Online

Lodestar Quarterly

Nashville Review

Negative Capability

Ocean State Review

Orca, A Literary Journal

Oversound

Pacifica Literary Review

Pilgrimage Magazine

Plenitude Magazine

Poet's Market

Prelude

Puerto del Sol

The Puritan

Requited

Ruminate

TSR: The Southampton Review

Southern Humanities Review

Spoke

Spoon River Poetry Review

Tammy

THRUSH Poetry Journal

Timber

Tuesday; An Art Project

Typo Magazine

Verse Daily

Waterstone

Western Humanities Review

Wicked Alice

Witness

Prizes won:

Timothy Liu selected IN OTHER WORD YOU/ for the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection and it will be published in 2023 by The Word Works. ORNITHEOLOGY received honors at the 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards. "Anonymity" won the 2016 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award. "Thereafter" won the 2015 Third Coast Poetry Prize judged by Ralph Angel.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors:

James Schuyler, Maurice Blanchot, Hans Faverey, Jorie Graham, Sylvia Plath

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Yes

Identifies as:

LGBTQ

Prefers to work with:

Any

Fluent in:

English

Born in:

New Hampshire

Raised in:

New Hampshire

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Last update: Nov 14, 2022