• About

    Poetry. Pets. Unions. Basketball

    Kyle William McGinn is a union organizing, basketball coaching, Chihuahua-owning poet whose work has appeared in Stonecoast Review, Watershed Review, The Under Review, and This Thing Called Poetry: An Anthology of Poems by Young Adults with Cancer from Finishing Line Press. He is a University of Wisconsin-River Falls graduate and holds an MFA from Hamline University. He is a Saint Paul native living in the woods of Western Wisconsin.

  • Publications

    Summer 2025

    "Checkout"

    Summer 2020

    "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear"

    Winter 2020

    "Proving It" and "Hoop Dreams Are What You Wake Up From"

    August 2019

    "The End of the Appointment," "Eat," and "The Light This Morning"

    May 2019

    "Diagnosis," "Diagnosis II," "We Were All Aware," and "Longways"

    January 2019

    "Inside"

    February 2017

    "Words with Borders, Projects Without: The collaborative possibilities of screenwriting" with Dr. Joseph Rein

    October 2016

    "Crescendo"

    September 2016

    "Eulogy"

    June 2016

    "Girl at Sewing Machine"

    September 2014

    Red Bird Chapbooks

    December 2012

    "Glassjaw" and "Sonny Liston as a Metaphor"

  • reach out

    I'm available for editing, design, or writing.