In person at Brookline Booksmith! Join us for an evening of poetry with Barrow Street Press Poets Carrie Bennett, Ruben Quesada, & Kevin McLellan.
This event is part of Third Thursdays Poetry, a monthly reading series at Brookline Booksmith.
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An Evening of Poetry: Barrow Street Press Poets
Ruben Quesada
 is a poet, translator, and editor. He edited the award-winning anthology 
Latinx Poetics.
 His writing appears in the 
Best American Poetry
 series, the 
New York Times Magazine
, 
Orion Magazine
, 
Harvard Review
, The 
Believer,
 
Essential Queer Voices of U.S. Poetry
, and elsewhere. His new poetry collection, 
Brutal Companion
, won the Barrow Street Editors Prize, and was recognized as A Notable Book of 2024 by the University of California.
Carrie Bennett
 is the author of four poetry collections, most recently 
The Mouth Is Also a Compass
, winner of the Barrow Street Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and currently teaches writing at Boston University. She is a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow and lives in Somerville, MA with her family.
Kevin McLellan 
is the author of: 
Sky. Pond. Mouth. 
(winner of the 2024 Granite State Poetry Prize selected by Alexandria Peary and a finalist for the Thom Gunn Award in Poetry); 
in other words you/ 
(winner of the 2022 Hilary Tham Capital Collection selected by Timothy Liu); 
Ornitheology
; 
Tributary
; Round Trip and the book objects, 
Hemispheres 
and 
[box]
 which reside in several special collections including the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University. Kevin’s poems have won award including the Third Coast Poetry Prize and the Oscar Wild Award. Kevin also makes videos which have appeared in numerous film festivals including: Berlin Short Film Festival; Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival; the Vancouver Queer Film Festival; and the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival in which "Dick" won Best Short Form Short. Kevin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://kevmclellan.com/ 
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