ISSUE 27
Thomas Morton Prize: Fiction Winner
Fiction
Thomas Morton Prize: Poetry Winner
Poetry
Essays
Interviews
Doors
Kevin McLellan is the author of Tributary (Barrow Street, 2015), and the chapbooks Shoes on a wire (Split Oak, 2015) runner-up for the 2012 Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry and Round Trip (Seven Kitchens, 2010), a collaborative series of poems with numerous women poets. He has poems in journals including: American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review Online, Sixth Finch, Spoon River Poetry Review, Western Humanities Review, Witness, and numerous others. Kevin lives in Cambridge MA, and sometimes teaches poetry workshops at URI.
undergrads moved in
downstairs just after
midnight / repeatedly
leave the building
unlocked / you worry
about the front door
as you stand in the
hospital elevator
beside a man / he
speaks to himself / no
coffee before chemo / they
open by separating
/ you walk down a
narrow white corridor
and through revolving
ones / now outdoors
/ the sky a purple
bruise-door pulsing
Kevin McLellan is the author of Tributary (Barrow Street, 2015), and the chapbooks Shoes on a wire (Split Oak, 2015) runner-up for the 2012 Stephen Dunn Prize in Poetry and Round Trip (Seven Kitchens, 2010), a collaborative series of poems with numerous women poets. He has poems in journals including: American Letters & Commentary, Barrow Street, Colorado Review, Kenyon Review Online, Sixth Finch, Spoon River Poetry Review, Western Humanities Review, Witness, and numerous others. Kevin lives in Cambridge MA, and sometimes teaches poetry workshops at URI.