Charles Kell is the author of Cage of Lit Glass, winner of the 2018 Autumn House Poetry Prize. His poetry and fiction have been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Laurel Review, Hobart, New Orleans Review, Saint Ann’s Review, Kestrel, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. He is assistant professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island and editor of the Ocean State Review.

"Kell’s flinty, ironic, fatalist tone is lyrically apprehensive and well-matched to detailing the mask of maleness—the strength and importance, pain and brutality, and power struggles among men and within 'every / man' . . . Impossible reflection, dear readers, is where love and art intersect, where Kell’s mix of narrative and absurdist poems live their lives in words both 'deeply felt' and 'unfeeling.' But this presents a 'false dichotomy,' reminding us 'that one can draw / loss, draw frost without anyone knowing.' When reading Kell’s 'sensualist' poems I encounter a poet willing to allow all aspects of self to become 'unmoored,' even unmasked."

Charles Kell is the author of Cage of Lit Glass, winner of the 2018 Autumn House Poetry Prize. His poetry and fiction have been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Laurel Review, Hobart, New Orleans Review, Saint Ann’s Review, Kestrel, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. He is assistant professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island and editor of the Ocean State Review.

"Kell’s flinty, ironic, fatalist tone is lyrically apprehensive and well-matched to detailing the mask of maleness—the strength and importance, pain and brutality, and power struggles among men and within 'every / man' . . . Impossible reflection, dear readers, is where love and art intersect, where Kell’s mix of narrative and absurdist poems live their lives in words both 'deeply felt' and 'unfeeling.' But this presents a 'false dichotomy,' reminding us 'that one can draw / loss, draw frost without anyone knowing.' When reading Kell’s 'sensualist' poems I encounter a poet willing to allow all aspects of self to become 'unmoored,' even unmasked."

Charles Kell is the author of Cage of Lit Glass, winner of the 2018 Autumn House Poetry Prize. His poetry and fiction have been published in the Brooklyn Rail, Laurel Review, Hobart, New Orleans Review, Saint Ann’s Review, Kestrel, Columbia Journal, and elsewhere. He is assistant professor of English at the Community College of Rhode Island and editor of the Ocean State Review.

"Kell’s flinty, ironic, fatalist tone is lyrically apprehensive and well-matched to detailing the mask of maleness—the strength and importance, pain and brutality, and power struggles among men and within 'every / man' . . . Impossible reflection, dear readers, is where love and art intersect, where Kell’s mix of narrative and absurdist poems live their lives in words both 'deeply felt' and 'unfeeling.' But this presents a 'false dichotomy,' reminding us 'that one can draw / loss, draw frost without anyone knowing.' When reading Kell’s 'sensualist' poems I encounter a poet willing to allow all aspects of self to become 'unmoored,' even unmasked."