ADAM CLAY

Upcoming Readings

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Here's the latest on a few readings slated for 2010, with more TBA soon:

St. Louis, MO
Stirrup Pants Chapbooks
Saturday, January 23, 2010
8pm
w/ Stephanie Anderson, Thomas Andes, Julie Dill, MC Hyland, Alison Palmer, Nate Slawson, and Joseph Wood

Minneapolis, MN
Pocket Lab Reading Series
March 4, 2010
w/ Chloe Joan Lopez and Bronwen Tate

Tuscaloosa, AL
Slash Pine Poetry Festival
April 23-24, 2010
Details TBA

In a World Of Ideas...

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My new chapbook, In a World of Ideas, I Feel No Particular Loyalty, is now available from Cinematheque Press. Find out more here.

Upcoming Readings

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April 14th, 2009:

MOOR Poetry Series
The University of Cincinnati's Reed Gallery
6:30pm
w/ Joshua Beckman
Reed Gallery is in the DAAP Complex, 5th Floor on the Clifton Campus at the University of Cincinnati. Call the University at 513-556-1376 for directions.

May 8th, 2009:

Knox College
Alumni Room, Old Main
Galesburg, IL
4 p.m.

The New Measure Poetry Prize

2009-03-16T14:12:00.000-04:00

Parlor Press’s poetry series, Free Verse Editions, is also pleased to announce The New Measure Poetry Prize, which will carry a cash award of $1,000 and publication of an original, unpublished manuscript of poems. Cole Swensen will select the winning manuscript. Other manuscripts not selected for the New Measure Poetry Prize may still be eligible for publication by Free Verse Editions. Submissions for the prize must be postmarked in April or May of 2009. The nonrefundable entry fee is $25.00. Please see www.parlorpress.com for full submission requirements.

Lately:

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UPCOMING EVENTS

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Free Verse Editions at AWP

Thursday Feb 12, 2009: 4pm - 5:30pm

The Court in the Columbia College Chicago
731 South Plymouth Court at the corner of Polk & Plymouth: 3 blocks west of the Hilton Chicago. The entrance is on Plymouth Court, and the venue is on the first floor to the right at the top of the stairs.

Dawn-Michelle Baude, Adam Clay, F. Daniel Rzicznek, and Jon Thompson.

Details here.

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diode & Anti- AWP Off Site Reading and Reception

Friday, Feb 13, 2009: 7pm - 10pm

Curtiss Hall, 10th Floor, Fine Arts Building
410 S. Michigan Ave

Bob Hicok, Mary Biddinger, Jake Adam York, Paul Guest, Noah Falck, Joshua Ware, Steven Schroeder, G.C. Waldrep, Patrick Lawler, Lee Ann Roripaugh, Brent Goodman, Adam Clay, Matt Guenette, and Ada Limon.

Celebrating the legacy of Gregory Corso

2009-01-22T11:16:00.006-05:00

Details here: http://www.igaveawaythesky.com

"any thing can be made, any sentence begun"

2009-01-21T08:15:00.001-05:00

PRAISE SONG FOR THE DAY
A POEM FOR BARACK OBAMA’S PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION

--Elizabeth Alexander

Each day we go about our business,
walking past each other, catching each other’s
eyes or not, about to speak or speaking.

All about us is noise. All about us is
noise and bramble, thorn and din, each
one of our ancestors on our tongues.

Someone is stitching up a hem, darning
a hole in a uniform, patching a tire,
repairing the things in need of repair.

Someone is trying to make music somewhere,
with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum,
with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice.

A woman and her son wait for the bus.
A farmer considers the changing sky.
A teacher says, Take out your pencils. Begin.

We encounter each other in words, words
spiny or smooth, whispered or declaimed,
words to consider, reconsider.

We cross dirt roads and highways that mark
the will of some one and then others, who said
I need to see what’s on the other side.

I know there’s something better down the road.
We need to find a place where we are safe.
We walk into that which we cannot yet see.

Say it plain: that many have died for this day.
Sing the names of the dead who brought us here,
who laid the train tracks, raised the bridges,

picked the cotton and the lettuce, built
brick by brick the glittering edifices
they would then keep clean and work inside of.

Praise song for struggle, praise song for the day.
Praise song for every hand-lettered sign,
the figuring-it-out at kitchen tables.

Some live by love thy neighbor as thyself,
others by first do no harm or take no more
than you need. What if the mightiest word is love?

Love beyond marital, filial, national,
love that casts a widening pool of light,
love with no need to pre-empt grievance.

In today’s sharp sparkle, this winter air,
any thing can be made, any sentence begun.
On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp,

praise song for walking forward in that light.

Poetry Reading

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Three Poets:
Tara Bray, Aaron McCollough, and Jennifer K. Sweeney.
A limited edition broadside designed by Katie Platte will be available.

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Kalamazoo Book Arts Center
Park Trades Building
326 W. Kalamazoo Avenue, Suite 103 A

7pm - 8:30pm
Free and Open to the Public

Tara Bray received an MFA from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. Her poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Shenandoah, Third Coast, Green Mountains Review, Crab Orchard Review, Puerto Del Sol, and elsewhere. In 2006, she was awarded a State of Nevada Individual Artist Fellowship and a Sierra Arts Foundation Literary Artist Grant. She currently resides in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her husband, poet William Notter, and their daughter.

Aaron McCollough's third book of poems, Little Ease, is available from Ahsahta Press. His other books include Double Venus (Salt, 2003) and Welkin (Ahsahta, 2002). McCollough's poems have appeared in or are forthcoming in Volt, Jacket, Denver Quarterly, Slope, Colorado Review, LIT, American Letters & Commentary, Verse, Typo, and other periodicals.

Jennifer K. Sweeney is the author of Salt Memory, winner of the 2006 Main Street Rag Poetry Award. She won the 2007 poetry prize from The Ledge. Twice-nominated for a Pushcart Prize, her poems have appeared in: Subtropics, Barrow Street, Crab Orchard, Hayden's Ferry Review, Hunger Mountain, Puerto del Sol, Spoon River and others. She serves as assistant editor for DMQ Review and is newly relocated to Michigan from San Francisco with her husband, poet Chad Sweeney.

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jubilat

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Poetry at the KBAC

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In KZOO This Weekend?

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Doors open at 6:30 for viewing the exhibition in the KBAC gallery “A Celebration of Michigan Prints.” The reading is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. A broadside featuring works by each poet created by Nikkita Cohoon and publications by the poets will be available for purchase. (Download flyer)

Lily Brown was born in Boston, Massachusetts and currently lives and teaches in Chicago, Illinois. She holds an M.F.A. from Saint Mary’s College of California, and her poems have appeared in Fence, Pleiades, Octopus, Typo, Tarpaulin Sky, and Handsome, among other journals. Her first chapbook, The Renaissance Sheet, was published by Octopus Books in 2007, and her second chapbook, Old with You, is forthcoming from Kitchen Press this winter.

Amanda Nadelberg is the author of Isa the Truck Named Isadore (Slope Editions, 2006). Her poems have appeared in journals like Conduit, Vanitas, Typo, jubilat and No: a journal of the arts. A graduate of Carleton College, she is currently attending the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.

Joshua Marie Wilkinson is the author of three books, including Suspension of a Secret in Abandoned Rooms (Pinball Publishing, 2005) and Lug Your Careless Body out of the Careful Dusk: A Poem in Fragment (Iowa, 2006) and two more are forthcoming: The Book of Whispering in the Projection Booth (Tupelo, 2009) and 12x12: Conversations in 21st Century Poetry & Poetics (Iowa, 2009). He teaches creative writing and literature at Loyola University.

Nikkita Cohoon has created a broadside to commemorate the event. The broadside incorporates letterpress text and relief printmaking techniques. Nikkita is an artist living and working in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She holds a BFA from Memphis College of Art in Printmaking. You can view her work at nikkitacohoon.com.

FOU: ISSUE TWO

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QUARRY

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Hello.

I thought you should know that Carolyn Guinzio's new book, Quarry, is available from Parlor Press.

Order it here.

THE ALPS

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PRE-ORDER HERE

Fayetteville Free Weekly

2008-10-09T11:06:00.001-04:00

Thirty Years after His Death, Arkansas Poet Frank Stanford’s Legacy Grows: Poets, Scholars and Friends Pilgrimage to Fayetteville to celebrate his work

Press Release

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For Immediate Release:
September 21, 2008
press contact: Katy Henriksen, kathenriksen AT gmail.com

Poets and Scholars Nationwide Travel to Fayetteville, Ark., to Celebrate the Life and Legacy of Frank Stanford with Three-Day Festival

Fayetteville, AR -- The Frank Stanford Literary Festival, Oct. 17 through 19, will honor Arkansas poet Frank Stanford's life and work through a small press reading, three panels, a screening of the rarely seen, award-winning experimental bio-pic It Wasn't a Dream, It Was a Flood, and a marathon reading of Stanford's epic poem The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You.

When Frank Stanford took his own life at age 29 in Fayetteville, he left behind a daunting collection of over 10,000 pages of published and unpublished papers. His poems appeared prolifically in publications including the highly visible magazines of the day such as The Nation and American Poetry Review, as well as smaller, ground-breaking literary journals such as Field, Ironwood, and kayak. In 1977, with C.D. Wright, he founded his own small press, Lost Roads, which aimed to "reclaim the landscape of American poetry." Lost Roads, in conjunction with Irving Broughton's Mill Mountain Press, released Stanford's epic poem The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You. Many of Stanford's titles are long out-of-print and first editions now sell for several hundred dollars. Countless poems have been written for him and Lucinda Williams paid tribute to him on her album Sweet Old World. This year Lost Roads Pubishers reprinted The Singing Knives and You. Despite an intense and impassioned following, Stanford's work has largely remained untouched by academia. Today Stanford's legacy is seeing a resurgence driven by an emerging generation of lyrical poets who esteem Stanford among John Berryman, John Ashbery, George Oppen, Lorine Niedecker, and Alice Notley as the most gifted and daring poets of the second half of the 20th Century.

A limited edition letter pressed broadside of Stanford's poem "Search Party" will be released at the festival, the result of a collaborative project between Lost Roads Publishers, Cannibal Books (Fayetteville, AR) and Effing Press (Austin, TX).

Hosts of the festival are The Burning Chair Readings, Fascicle, The Fayetteville Public Library, Lost Roads Publishers, and Typo.

Event Details:
Friday 7 to 11pm
The Garden Room of The Ozark Smokehouse (215 W. Dickson St.)
$5 suggested donation

The festival kicks off with a small press reading by 18 readers who represent the small press tradition and Stanford's continuing influence. Poets include Stanford's friend and Lost Roads poet Ralph Adamo, Coffeehouse Books author Anne Boyer, Flood Editions authors Graham Foust and Philip Jenks, and Walt Whitman Award Winner/Kuhl House poet Tony Tost.

Saturday 11:30am to 5pm
The Fayetteville Public Library (401 W. Mountain St.)
Free and open to the public

Daytime festivities include three panels (two critical, and one consisting of friends of Stanford discussing his life), a screening of It Wasn't a Dream, It Was a Flood introduced by director and Mill Mountain Press publisher Irving Broughton, and a reading of selected poems from Stanford's eight full-length poetry collections.

Saturday 7pm* to ?am Sunday morning
Metro District Meeting Room (509 W. Spring St.)
$5-$10 suggested donation
*doors, reading begins promptly at 8pm

The festival closes with a marathon reading of The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You, a 380-page poem that Stanford began in his adolescence. The entirety of this seminal work will be read without interruption.

Resources:
official website – typomag.com/frankstanfordfestival
official blog – frankstanfordfest.blogspot.com
Lost Roads Publishers – www.webdelsol.com/Lost_Roads
Fascicle – fascicle.com
Fayetteville Public Library – www.faylib.org
Typo – typomag.com
Alsop Review – www.alsopreview.com/thecollections/stanford/stanford.html
Rain Taxi – www.raintaxi.com/online/1998fall/stanford.shtml

For more information contact Katy Henriksen, kathenriksen AT gmail.com.

TYPO 12

2008-09-22T09:32:00.001-04:00

Dear Reader—

TYPO 12 is born. Featuring poems from:

ANA BOŽIČEVIĆ
STEFFEN BROWN
GRACE EGBERT
RYAN FLAHERTY
JENNIFER H. FORTIN
ELISA GABBERT
BOB HICOK
KEVIN HOLDEN
SHANE JONES
ELIZABETH SANGER
SAMPSON STARKWEATHER
JOSEPH WOOD

http://www.typomag.com/issue12

Also,
The Frank Stanford Literary Festival
October 17-19, 2008
Fayetteville, AR
Details:
http://www.typomag.com/frankstanfordfestival/

yrs,
Adam
TYPO

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Southern Poets

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This is a broad request. I'm compiling a list of contemporary poets from the South or poets that have moved to the South and adopted it as a home.

Talk to me.