Kevin Carey : part one

Kevin Carey is Coordinator of Creative Writing at Salem State University. He has published a chapbook of fiction from Red Bird Chapbooks, The Beach People (2014) and three books of poetry, The One Fifteen to Penn Station (2012), Jesus Was a Homeboy (2016) which was an Honor book for the Paterson Literary Prize, & Set in Stone (2020) all from CavanKerry Press. His poems have twice appeared on The Writers Almanac on National Public Radio and on The Academy of American Poets Poem a Day. Kevin is also a playwright and a filmmaker. He has co-directed & co-produced two documentaries about poets, All That Lies Between Us and Unburying Malcolm Miller, which premiered at the Massachusetts Poetry Festival in 2017. His first crime novel, Murder in the Marsh, from Darkstroke Books, was released in October (2020). A new middle grade novel Junior Miles and the Junkman will be published in September of 2023 from Fitzroy Books, an imprint of Regal House Publishing. Kevincareywriter.com

What are you working on?

I’m currently working on a chapbook of poems with a friend of mine, poet Colleen Michaels. It’s modern day versions of the Greek gods who now live in a gated community (Olympia Heights) with a guard shack, swimming pools and catered backyard parties.  

I’m also finishing a fourth poetry collection of my own. Working title is Waiting on the Love Train.

I have a second mystery novel in the works, a sequel to Murder in the Marsh (Darkstroke Books) and I’m looking to stage a play I wrote with poet/songwriter RG Evans. It’s a low residency MFA murder mystery called The Terminal Degree.