Kevin McLellan is the author of the full-length poetry collections, Ornitheology (The Word Works) https://kevmclellan.com/about/ornitheology/ which received honors at the 19th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards and Tributary (Barrow Street). He also authored the book objects, Hemispheres (Fact-Simile Editions) and [box] (Letter [r] Press), and the chapbook Round Trip (Seven Kitchens Press). Kevin won the 2015 Third Coast Poetry Prize and Gival Press’ 2016 Oscar Wilde Award, and his writing appears in numerous literary journals including Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Kenyon Review, Sixth Finch, West Branch, Western Humanities Review, and others. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://kevmclellan.com/.
Kevin is also Duck Hunting with the Grammarian Productions. https://kevmclellan.com/about/duck-hunting-with-the-grammarian-productions/ His experimental short will appear in the 2021 Tag! Queer Shorts Festival. Exordium, https://kevmclellan.com/about/film-exordium/ , Kevin’s experimental short collaboration with Laura Knott, showed at Cadence: Video Poetry Festival, Festival Fotogenia, Festival Angaelica, and forthcoming to appear at the 9th Annual International Video Poetry Festival and Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival. Trailer: https://vimeo.com/346393476
PUBLICATIONS
Hemispheres: (Fact-Simile Editions, 2019)
housed in the special collections in the Poetry Center at the UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA and the UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO library
poem: http://www.pangyrus.com/poetry/crows-with-sun/
poems: http://requitedjournal.com/index.php?/poetry/kevin-mclellan/
interview: https://www.colorado.edu/timberjournal/2016/05/01/timber-interview-kevin-mcclellan
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Ornitheology (The Word Works, 2018)
2019 Massachusetts Book Awards: Poetry
19th Award: The Wall by Ilan Stavans (Pittsburgh)
19th Honors: Ornitheology by Kevin McLellan (Word Works) and Rewilding by January Gill O’Neil (CavanKerry)
19th Must Reads: Blood Labors by Daniel Tobin; Pray Me Stay Eager by Ellen Dore Watson; Bad Harvest by Dzvinia Orlowsky; White Storm by Gary Metras; My Tarantella by Jennifer Martelli; Shadow-Feast by Joan Houlihan; Night Unto Night by Martha Collins; See the Wolf by Sarah Sousa; Stanley’s Girl: Poems by Susan Eisenberg
review (by Julie Marie Wade): https://therumpus.net/2018/10/ornitheology-by-kevin-mclellan/
review (by Megan Alpert): https://tinderboxpoetry.com/ornitheology-by-kevin-mclellan
poems: https://superstitionreview.asu.edu/issue14/poetry/kevinmclellan
audio poem: http://thesoundofsugar.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-sound-of-sugarkevin-mclellan.html
poem: http://sixthfinch.com/mclellan1.html
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[box] (Letter [R] Press, 2016)
housed in the following archives: the Blue Star collection at HARVARD UNIVERSITY; Tutt Library at COLORADO COLLEGE; and THE HISTORY PROJECT
promo: https://vimeo.com/163961742
review by Jennifer Martelli: http://www.upthestaircase.org/box.html
buy: SOLD OUT!
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Tributary (Barrow Street, 2015)
poem: http://www.kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2011-fall/selections/kevin-mclellan/
interview: http://www.sugarhousereview.com/interviews
buy: http://barrowstreet.org/press/book/tributary-kevin-mclellan/
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Round Trip (Seven Kitchens, 2010)
buy: https://sevenkitchenspress.com/editors-series-1/volume-one/kevin-mclellan/
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SELECTED INTERVIEWS
“Texts for Nothing: #2” with Antonio Ochoa CCTV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gTIX0TcH9Y&feature=youtu.be, March 3, 2019
http://www.sugarhousereview.com/interviews
https://www.carvezine.com/from-the-editor/2017/3/28/qa-with-poetry-contributor-kevin-mclellan
http://www.masspoetry.org/newbookmclellan/
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UNPUBLISHED/IN-PROGRESS
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finalist: 2018 New Issues Green Rose Prize + 2019 New Issues Green Rose Poetry Prize
poem: winner of the 2015 Third Coast Poetry Prize (judged by Ralph Angel) for “Thereafter” Ralph Angel writes: “Sometimes language speaks louder than words. And sometimes self-consciousness keeps up with it—the language for which we have no language—’the something // out there after you. “Thereafter” is a marvelous depiction of the mind in action.” http://www.thirdcoastmagazine.com/contests/
AIRLIE PRESS reading: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=De9PqkC2TuA
poems: winner of the 2016 Gival Press Oscar Wilde Award: http://givalpress.com/index.cfm?rsn=678&mn=Authors
poems: http://www.americanliteraryreview.com/kevin-mclellan.html
