What a week to launch PYRRHIC SYMPHONY! I’ve happily burnt rubber & leather to celebrate the book with friends old & new in places strange & familiar. Big thanks to @univnebpress.bsky.social & @prairie-schooner.bsky.social & everyone who read with me & picked up a copy!

Congratulations to contributor @cubistoctopus.bsky.social on this week's publication of PYRRHIC SYMPHONY with @univnebpress.bsky.social !

Learn more and order Pyrrhic Symphony by Adam O. Davis: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...

Pyrrhic Symphony - Nebraska Press

Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in PoetryIn Pyrrhic Symphony, the speaker asks, “Should a poem be the pill or the pharmacy?” And t...

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Happy publication day to 2025 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize Winners Adam O. Davis and Micah Dean Hicks! Learn more about their collections: prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize/ @cubistoctopus.bsky.social @micahdeanhicks.com @univnebpress.bsky.social

What a stunner of an issue from @prairie-schooner.bsky.social! Honored to have my poem, "The States," which will be featured in my forthcoming book, PYRRHIC SYMPHONY, included!

Prairie Schooner@prairie-schooner.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Adam O. Davis's poem "The States" appears in our latest issue. @cubistoctopus.bsky.social See the full table of contents, read excerpts, and order a copy of the Loneliness issue here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/spring...

The Loneliness Issue is here! Our Spring 2026 issue is now shipping. See the full table of contents, read excerpts from the issue, and order your own copy here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/spring...

Find our readers here @felicity-plunkett.bsky.social @bdralyuk.bsky.social and @cubistoctopus.bsky.social!

Montreal International Poetry Prize@montrealprize.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Fluid Vessels 15 is officially scheduled for 21 March 2026! Join us on Zoom, no RSVP required, for readings from our 2026 prize jury! Come hear readings from: Boris Dralyuk, Felicity Plunkett, and Adam Davis! Here is the zoom link to attend: mcgill.zoom.us/j/89544751533

Delighted to be reading for @montrealprize.bsky.social’s Fluid Vessels next Saturday (or Sunday depending on your time zone)! Tune in via the link below:

Montreal International Poetry Prize@montrealprize.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Fluid Vessels 15 is officially scheduled for 21 March 2026! Join us on Zoom, no RSVP required, for readings from our 2026 prize jury! Come hear readings from: Boris Dralyuk, Felicity Plunkett, and Adam Davis! Here is the zoom link to attend: mcgill.zoom.us/j/89544751533

Cover reveal! Coming September 2026: the winners of the 2026 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction and Poetry. Preorder through @univnebpress.bsky.social: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... @micahdeanhicks.com @cubistoctopus.bsky.social

Stoked to present the cover for PYRRHIC SYMPHONY! Nearly 20 years ago I saw this piece by the brilliant Wayne Zebzda & it means so much that it’s now the cover of my forthcoming collection, which is available for preorders. Thanks again to @univnebpress.bsky.social & @prairie-schooner.bsky.social!

Many thanks to @droderick77.bsky.social for bringing me aboard @adroitjournal.bsky.social’s Larry Levis retrospective—was glad to contribute an essay about the great poet’s work, not to mention be in the company of so many fine writers.

David Roderick@droderick77.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Read @adroitjournal.bsky.social's Larry Levis project with essays by David St. John, @paisleyrekdal.bsky.social, James Ciano, @lizajohnson1.bsky.social, Jon Pineda, @sharalessley.bsky.social, @cubistoctopus.bsky.social, @nxo.bsky.social, @megg-bean.bsky.social. theadroitjournal.org/issue-fifty-...

PYRRHIC SYMPHONY arrives in nine months! I’m so grateful to @univnebpress.bsky.social & @prairie-schooner.bsky.social for shepherding it into the world & if you’re interested in hearing this symphony out loud, drop me a line. Can’t wait to share it with you all in September!

Though I’ve yet to visit, Louisville’s always been good to me & my work. Deep thanks to @miraclemonocle.bsky.social for publishing three poems from my forthcoming collection (PYRRHIC SYMPHONY out 9/1/26 from @univnebpress.bsky.social )! Check them out via the link below.

Miracle Monocle@miraclemonocle.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Issue 25 of Miracle Monocle—the first issue to launch on our beautiful new website! Enjoy it (for free!) on your phone or desktop! 🧡

Really liked the poem 'Terminal Felicity' by @cubistoctopus.bsky.social in the latest @miraclemonocle.bsky.social ... "She whispers like the wind once whispered: / In the end, / you are the end— / the lisp before the longest dusk..."

Miracle Monocle@miraclemonocle.bsky.social · 10mo ago

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Issue 25 of Miracle Monocle—the first issue to launch on our beautiful new website! Enjoy it (for free!) on your phone or desktop! 🧡

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Issue 25 of Miracle Monocle—the first issue to launch on our beautiful new website! Enjoy it (for free!) on your phone or desktop! 🧡

Still reeling from the news from @prairie-schooner.bsky.social & all the more delighted to announce that my second poetry collection, PYRRHIC SYMPHONY, will be published by @univnebpress.bsky.social almost exactly one year from today! Can't wait to share the book with you next September!

University of Nebraska Press@univnebpress.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to the winners of the Raz-Shumaker @prairie-schooner.bsky.social‬ Book Prizes: Adam O. Davis (@cubistoctopus.bsky.social‬) and @micahdeanhicks.com‬

Guest judges, Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Hilda Raz, praises @cubistoctopus.bsky.social's Pyrrhic Symphony, winner of the 2025 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in poetry, which @univnebpress.bsky.social will publish. Visit our blog to read more about the manuscript: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...

Beyond delighted that my poetry collection, Pyrrhic Symphony, won the Raz/Shumaker prize from @prairie-schooner.bsky.social! Deepest, deepest thanks to the editors & readers!

Prairie Schooner@prairie-schooner.bsky.social · last yr.

We're excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize! In poetry, Adam O. Davis (@cubistoctopus.bsky.social) is the winner for Pyrrhic Symphony. In fiction, Micah Dean Hicks (@micahdeanhicks.com) is the winner for Vulture Gold. Read more: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...

Excited to dive in! @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social going strong at 40. Kudos @ovillalon.bsky.social & contributors @arlozoroff.bsky.social @cubistoctopus.bsky.social @poetkellycm.bsky.social @mpalaia.bsky.social @fetaplace.bsky.social @dapowell.bsky.social @kimsamek.bsky.social @gregoryspatz.bsky.social

Not to be confused with your favorite film/poetry podcast—Poetry Goes to the Movies—I’m very glad to have my poem about Charlton Heston’s many ends of the world as seen from what felt like the end of our world featured in this poetry/film anthology edited by Suzanne Lummis.

If you know me, you know I was struck by lightning when I was a teenager. I’m delighted that the essay I finally wrote about it was a finalist for the @newlettersmagazine.bsky.social Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction. My thanks to Christie Hodges for publishing it.

Many, many thanks to Faith Hill and the poetry staff at @theatlantic.com for publishing my new poem “Fossil Record for my Grandmother” today: www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Delighted to have this poem from the new manuscript that invokes the mysteries of regeneration & poker & the forces that draw us together or pull us apart published in AGNI, a journal I’ve long admired & have just as long longed to be part of.

Lord you kept right on going downhill badly slurred The road you were on (from Hotel Almighty)

With Halloween nigh it’s high time to wish a happy belated third birthday to the INDEX. Thank you to everyone who’s read & supported it over the years, especially @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. Extra special thanks to my daughters’ art direction—“make it spookier,” they insisted; so we did.

An action shot of me dishing out a poem from the second manuscript (my printer’s busted & I refuse to read off a phone so I wrote it out) to celebrate PLNU’s 25th Annual Poetry Day. Thanks again to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for the invite & to the 24 other readers for their poems.

Good people of San Diego—it’s happening tonight at PLNU: 25 years in 25 poems!

For every new follow, @sarabandebooks.bsky.social will mail El*n an envelope full of glitter

Kristen Renee Miller@kristenmiller.bsky.social · 3y ago

because we’re all trauma bonded 😂

@sarabandebooks.bsky.social poets are here! @karismaprice.bsky.social @sjane.bsky.social @simonshieh.bsky.social @cubistoctopus.bsky.social @petermishler.bsky.social @categoryofoutcast.bsky.social …& of course the poets on our staff: @joannaenglert.bsky.social @danikaaaaaah.bsky.social & moi

Glad to officially join the party!

Kristen Renee Miller@kristenmiller.bsky.social · 3y ago

Oh hey!! It’s @cubistoctopus.bsky.social, you guys! 🙌🙌