POETS STEVE LUTTRELL AND KEVIN MCLELLAN READING FOR XIT THE BEAR READING IN THE PRESS ROOM
Schedule
Sun, 19 Oct, 2025 at 04:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
The Press Room 90 Oxford St Somerville Ma | Somerville, MA
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Fall continues with a long overdue visit by poets Steve Luttrell and Kevin McLellan: Jenny Grassl's wood cuts join us from the walls.All are welcome! $5.00 donation requested.
Details and bios below.
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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 Gay 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.
He has recent or forthcoming poems in the Harvard Review, Bennington Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and several others.
Kevin also makes videos which have appeared in numerous film festivals including the Berlin Short Film Festival, Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival, the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, and the LGBTQ+ Los Angeles Film Festival where "Dick" won Best Short Form Short. Kevin lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. https://kevmclellan.com/
STEVE LUTTRELL was born and continues to live in Portland, Maine , where he formerly served as
Poet Laureate of the city. He is the founder and
publisher of THE CAFE REVIEW . Maines oldest
Quarterly Poetry journal. His new book, PAPER BOATS is his sixth collection of poems.
JENNY GRASSL is a poet and visual artist who lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: Ocean State Review, , The Boston Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Bennington Review, Lana Turner Journal, Inverted Syntax, Massachusetts Review, Heavy Feather Review, and others. She was a runner-up in The Boston Review Annual Contest, judged by Mary Jo Bang. She has a finalist complex, but finally was chosen by 3: A Taos Press, where her new collection Magicholia was published in August 2024.
LOCATION AND OTHER DETAILS:
The Press Room
90 Oxford St.
****Somerville. 02143 NOT CAMBRIDGE!!!!! google keeps sending people to Cambridge for some reason******
All are welcome
$5.00 donation requested
{the Press Room is located down the drive & through the garden.}
Parking is non permit on Highland on weekdays and open everywhere on Sundays no permit or coins necessary!.
We are now a brief walk from the Green line Gillman Station (Tufts/Medford line) a 25 min. walk from Harvard Sq or Davis Sq. Buss run from Davis and Lechmere,[88]: (Get off at Central Street:) from Central Sq. and Rindge Ave [Alewife] {83}...Get off at Central & Somerville Ave and walk up Central to Oxford.
Oxford Street is near the junction of Central and Highland.
From Highland walk toward Harvard Sq. on Central and turn left onto Oxford. We are three houses off Central.
We will be open for guests starting at 3:30pm.... reading will start at 4ish.
As always The Highland Kitchen is a short 3min walk & offers a grand bar and food.
After: The Highland Kitchen is a short block away and offers great food and drink at reasonable prices....
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Where is it happening?
The Press Room 90 Oxford St Somerville Ma, 55 Oxford St, Somerville, MA 02143-1617, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
