Charles Kell
@charles_kell
Poetry, Fiction, Reading. Ishmael Mask (March 2023), Cage of Lit Glass (September 2019) at @AutumnHousePrs
Excited for my second full-length, Ishmael Mask. Much love and gratitude to Miguel Murphy, Susan Stewart, Vi Khi Nao, and Donald Revell. Much love to Christine Stroud and Mike Good @DoogEkim at Autumn House Press @AutumnHousePrs autumnhouse.org/books/ishmael-…
This is probably one of the greatest entrances in the history of music
1192 pages Joseph McElroy / Women and Men Knopf / Second printing, May 1987
The remarkable @BorisDralyuk from @utulsa in today's Asymptote journal! asymptotejournal.com/interview/an-i…
McElroy's language is a sort of liquid. Subordinate clauses, liberated from commas, constantly bleed into the main sentence. Highly ciphered, awe-inspiring, unequivocally dumbfounding novels you don’t need to fully decrypt to appreciate.Literary titans are almost extinct. Almost.
This is terrific!:
Today our free newsletter readers received the daddy of all papa poems by M. I. Devine (@famous_letter), from our Summer 2025 issue.
Big shout out to Lisa Trudeau, Laurie Rosenblatt, Michael DeArmas, and Hannah Markos Williams at LEON (@LeonReview) for running my poem about a dead moth... leonliteraryreview.com/issue-31-charl…
Bacon at The Colony Room in Soho (standard.co.uk/going-out/bars…)
My withdrawal statement from the Edinburgh Literary Festival.
Samuel Beckett's letter to Sergei Eisenstein from 1936, asking to be admitted to his film school
With Igor Moritz (igormoritz.com) at his opening at the Cob gallery
"Dixon’s scathing debut collection skewers the hypocrisy and bad faith of American conservative politics from Nixon to Trump" publishersweekly.com/9781960145499