Adam Day is the author of Model of a City in Civil War (Sarabande Books), and is the recipient of a Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha, a PEN Emerging Writers Award, and an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, the Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Lana Turner, the Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He coordinates the Baltic Writing Residency in Latvia, Scotland, and the Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest.
Poetry
Fall 2009
A Family Romance
The train to Trieste—Schiele, fifteen, hoisting his sister's suitcase onto the rack, a wash of cold light flushing her face like breath traveling across glass. Lost in fog, the windows […]
Poetry
Spring 2008
Gallows Portraits
I keep seeing Mussolini in his tight, pine coffin, shirtless on cedar shavings. One eye opened. Swollen face pancaked, his mouth a singed lipless stretch— a kind of cartoon, a […]
Poetry
Spring 2008
Aubade
This small passing. The braille of small pebbles around your hardened nipples—drill bits scattered in morning snow—the pipe fitter’s missing fingers—the odd sign of his open fist—crumbling cedar fence posts […]
Winter 2016
The Body Palestine: A Review of Najwan Darwish’s Nothing More to Lose
In the United States, Europe, and Asia you can visit formerly secret nuclear bunkers from the Cold War era as a tourist.