{"id":2394,"date":"2024-07-04T18:36:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T23:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thespectaclstg.wpengine.com\/?p=2394"},"modified":"2024-07-16T10:59:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:59:28","slug":"poetry-by-kevin-mclellan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/?p=2394","title":{"rendered":"Poetry by Kevin McLellan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Haptic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"787\" height=\"337\" src=\"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Haptic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Haptic.jpg 787w, https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Haptic-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Haptic-150x64.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Haptic-330x141.jpg 330w, https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/Haptic-690x295.jpg 690w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Kevin McLellan is the author of <em>Sky. Pond. Mouth.<\/em> (winner of the 2024 Granite State Poetry Prize, selected by Alexandria Peary); <em>in other words you\/<\/em> (winner of the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection, selected by Timothy Liu); <em>Ornitheology <\/em>(Massachusetts Book Awards recipient); <em>Tributary<\/em>, <em>Round Trip<\/em>; and the book objects <em>Hemispheres<\/em> and [<em>box<\/em>]. He makes videos under the name Duck Hunting with the Grammarian. <em>Dick <\/em>won Best Short Form Short at the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival and was shown at the Flickers\u2019 Rhode Island Film Festival, Berlin Short Film Festival, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, and others. Kevin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. <a href=\"https:\/\/nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkevmclellan.com%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cd.ehmcke%40wustl.edu%7C75e2a64f28ff45b248f708dc40746fb7%7C4ccca3b571cd4e6d974b4d9beb96c6d6%7C0%7C0%7C638456116437652622%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=5eR0IuXT5R32eXNIhT3wuW1Lf9y08ygd5IuPawkP5Qc%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/kevmclellan.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkevin.mclellan.54%2F&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cd.ehmcke%40wustl.edu%7C75e2a64f28ff45b248f708dc40746fb7%7C4ccca3b571cd4e6d974b4d9beb96c6d6%7C0%7C0%7C638456116437662779%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=COthLNyTnTyfl4CoHiWFfIZ7acvkOy2LK7jIkicL6uM%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/kevin.mclellan.54\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You realize this isn&#8217;t a river\u2014a wet parking lot with faded lines goes under a \/ building &#038; some long grass like reeds where the walls meet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,98],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thespectacle.wustl.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}