Poets McLellan & Kell

Start your summer with poetry.

Kevin McLellan and Charles Kell will read from their newest collections.

Kevin McLellan is the author of: in other words you/ selected by Timothy Liu for the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection and published by the Word Works; Hemispheres which is in special collections including the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona; 2019 Massachusetts Book Awards recipient, Ornitheology; [box] which is in special collections including the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University; Tributary; and Round Trip. He makes videos under the name Duck Hunting with the Grammarian and they have shown in film festivals including Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival, Berlin Short Film Festival, and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. Kevin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://kevmclellan.com/

Charles Kell has poetry and fiction in the New Orleans Review, The Saint Ann’s Review, Kestrel, Columbia Journal, The Pinch, and elsewhere. He is Assistant Professor of English at Community College of Rhode Island’s Flanagan campus and associate editor of The Ocean State Review. He recently completed a PhD at the University of Rhode Island with a dissertation on experimental writing, criminality and transgression in the work of James Baldwin, Rosmarie Waldrop, Joanna Scott and C.D. Wright.