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 […]
Kelly McQuain
Kelly McQuain: New Baby at the Office
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 […]
Kelly McQuain
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 […]
Kelly McQuain: Boy Wonder in Bondage Or, Robin gets snared by Wonder Woman’s magic lasso
Of course it would have to be her,
Kelly McQuain: Ghost Walking, Schuykill River, Crack of Dawn
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 […]