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Kelly McQuain

Congratulations Kelly McQuain!

August 12, 2013 by PBQ

Long time contributor of Painted Bride Quarterly, Kelly McQuain received the 2013 Presidential Diversity Award from Community College of Philadelphia! The award carries a stipend that he will use during summer 2013 to help cover travel to China, where he hopes to draft new poems. Recently McQuain was selected from candidates nationwide to attend a three-week field seminar in Chinese […]

Filed Under: News & Events Tagged With: Contributors 85, Contributors 86, Contributors 87, Issue 85, Issue 86, Issue 87, Kelly McQuain

Kelly McQuain: New Baby at the Office

March 30, 2013 by PBQ

What am I supposed to say? Your baby’s lovely when he’s not? That he doesn’t look almost simian with his scrunched-up face and shock of electrified orangutan fuzz on top? That his hands are sweet as apricots, his toes teasingly nibble-able?   No, I don’t want to baby-sit.   He’s so cute I could eat […]

Filed Under: Contributors 86, Issue 86, Poetry, Poetry 86 Tagged With: Contributors 86, Kelly McQuain, Poetry, Poetry 86

Kelly McQuain

February 14, 2013 by PBQ

Kelly McQuain is a professor of creative writing at Community College of Philadelphia whose poetry has appeared in Press 1, Black Heart Magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia City Paper, Apiary, Certain Circuits, Kansas Quarterly/Arkansas Review, the James White Review and N.P.R.’s Tell Me More. His prose has appeared in such anthologies as Obsessed, Skin […]

Filed Under: Contributors 85, Contributors 86, Contributors 87, Issue 87 Tagged With: Contributors, Contributors 85, Contributors 86, Contributors 87, Kelly McQuain

Kelly McQuain: Boy Wonder in Bondage Or,  Robin gets snared by Wonder Woman’s magic lasso

February 13, 2013 by PBQ

Of course it would have to be her,

Filed Under: Contributors 87, Issue 87, Poetry, Poetry 87 Tagged With: Contributors 87, Kelly McQuain, Poetry, Poetry 87

Kelly McQuain: Ghost Walking, Schuykill River,    Crack of Dawn

October 11, 2012 by PBQ

Autumn nights I stay awake from terrible dreams each slightly different, at their center a core unchanged. I wander like a whistle loosened from a train. Man with dog and nothing else to do. When the light hits the city I’ll become me again. Until then we drive, then walk. Leaves rake the ground; hills […]

Filed Under: Contributors 85, Issue 85, Poetry, Poetry 85 Tagged With: Contributors 85, Kelly McQuain, Poetry, Poetry 85

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