Thank you, Timothy Liu, for judging this year’s Hilary Tham Capital Collection! Tim has selected two marvelous books for us to publish in 2023: A pooka in Arkansas by Ed Madden (SC) and In Other Words You/ by Kevin McLellan (MA).
Ed Madden is the author of four previous books and four chapbooks of poetry, most recently Ark, a book about his father’s last months in hospice care, and So they can sing, which won the 2016 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize.
As a professor of English and the former director of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina, he teaches Irish literature, queer studies, and creative writing. From 2015 through 2022, Ed has served as the poet laureate for the City of Columbia, SC. He received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and artist residencies at the Hambidge Center in Georgia and the Instituto Sacatar in Itaparica, Brazil.
Kevin McLellan authored the full-length poetry collections Ornitheology (2019 Massachusetts Book Awards recipient) and Tributary; the book objects Hemispheres (which resides in the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona and other special collections) and [box] (which resides in the Blue Star Collection at Harvard University and other special collections); and the chapbook Round Trip.
He also makes videos under the name Duck Hunting with the Grammarian, and his video Dick showed in the Flickers’ Rhode Island Film Festival, the Tag! Queer Film Festival, the Berlin Short Film Festival, and the Vancouver Queer Film Festival. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The Hilary Tham Capital Collection
Brad Richard serves as Series Editor of the HTCC, which was founded by poet and editor Karren Alenier, current board chair at The Word Works. The HTCC celebrates and publishes poets who donate their time and talent to literary endeavors. Any organization may nominate their poet-volunteers for consideration! Check out the guidelines here.
Carolina, he teaches Irish literature, queer studies, and creative writing. From 2015 through 2022, Ed has served as the poet laureate for the City of Columbia, SC. He received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship and artist residencies at the Hambidge Center in Georgia and the Instituto Sacatar in Itaparica, Brazil.