Kyle C. Mellen

Kyle C. Mellen’s honors include the Alaska Literary Award (2015) and the Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award (2012). Originally from Massachusetts, he lives in Fairbanks, Alaska.

The MacEvoys had the pool dug out of their backyard in April of 1983. For three straight Saturdays in March, Bob Cobb and Dan Gray and Lee MacEvoy, in dungarees […]

IN Summer 2015

Spring 2023

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

on A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times by Meron Hadero

on Are We Ever Our Own by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes

To Dare a Future (on The Letters of Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler,...

Auden in the 21st Century (on The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems,...

Fate, Nation, and Fatherhood: Formula 1 Emerges during a Pandemic in America (on Formula...

on I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and...

on Correction by Gabriel Blackwell

on Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen

Spring 2023

On Craftsmanship (essay) & 1991 State of Human Rights Address

The Visitation of God; The Leaf Blower among the Swimming Pool Lights; E...

First Aid

Teaching Ecopoetry in a Time of Climate Change

The Lonely Ruralist

Influenza 1918

Itō Grows Ill, A Bird Transforms into a Blossom, and The Giant Trees St...

Jerry’s Dirt [Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Painting What Is Said and What Is Kept Silent

Sense and Element (with an interview by Gerald Maa)

Returns: Cherokee Diaspora and Art (with an introduction by Ashley Holland)

Ambient Works

Enveloped by Memory

Gardens at the Margins

on A Down Home Meal for These Difficult Times by Meron Hadero

on Are We Ever Our Own by Gabrielle Lucille Fuentes

To Dare a Future (on The Letters of Thom Gunn, edited by August Kleinzahler,...

Auden in the 21st Century (on The Complete Works of W. H. Auden: Poems,...

Fate, Nation, and Fatherhood: Formula 1 Emerges during a Pandemic in America (on Formula...

on I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and...

on Correction by Gabriel Blackwell

on Activities of Daily Living by Lisa Hsiao Chen

Spring 2023

Kyle C. Mellen

West Pond Road, 1981–88 & Other People’s Houses

Ghosts

The Pool

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...

Jerry’s Dirt

[Winner of National Magazine Award in Profile Writi...