Adam Clay is the author of A Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World (Milkweed Editions, 2012) and The Wash (Parlor Press, 2006). A third book of poems is forthcoming from Milkweed Editions. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Crab Orchard Review, Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He co-edits TYPO Magazine and teaches at the University of Illinois Springfield.
Summer 2015
Forecast and Its Failure
My daughter collecting rocks from the shore each day, a pile on the piano bench, some under foot,
Fall 2012
The Idea of Home as a Haunt
Reconsidering or considering companionship seems
too studious or perhaps
even too stubborn
for someone
as careful as yourself.