Adam Clay

The next spring 2025 Ruth Awad Poetry Pick is Adam Clay's “A Photograph of a Grain of Salt”:

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ADAM CLAY A Photograph of a Grain of Salt Some mornings everything feels spectacular or maybe I mean everything feels like spectacle. The rain seems unbelievable on the other side of the curtains. Outside, crime scene tape whips in the wind like some twenty-first century tumbleweed. Tomorrow night so far away, I don't imagine knowing why. A hand in front of my face—my hand-disappears when I hold it up. About suffering what if the old masters had it wrong, how a frame can't hold everything or how some musings fall short to what loss can mean on a microscopic level. A look at anything up close is like looking at everything at once and then it's like nothing, nothing at all.

Adam Clay 💙

in Southern Indiana Review

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An overdue thanks to @jackbedell.bsky.social and the @louisianalit.bsky.social team for publishing four of my poems in the latest issue. Here’s one with a nod back to Illinois—

Graham Foust in Issue One--

Read more here:
www.autocorrectmag.com/01/index.html

Day 150. 5/30/25. “Some Mood”. Adam Clay. #poemaday365

Here is a new Literary Online Journal project by Adam Clay. The first issue. Please give it a read.
www.autocorrectmag.com/about.html

Grateful to have a couple of new poems in here. Big thanks, @adamclay.bsky.social

I got this tattoo to memorialize the binder clip era

Issue one of @autocorrectmag.bsky.social is live: autocorrectmag.com

The Burning of Nottoway Plantation A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories?

I had thoughts about the plantation burning. Lots of thoughts.

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Wanda Coleman

"Your sister has no thesis" really stuck with me. If I was teaching comp, this would be a good stock comment that 1% of my students would get.

It’s so so good

@postcardlit.bsky.social issue 3

Issue 3 is here! 10 postcards with 10 poems by 10 amazing poets (Emma Bolden, Adam Clay, Jessica Cuello, Erin Dorney, Susan Leary, Erin Malone, Nora Nadjarian, Michael Robins, Diane Wald, and Jane Zwart). Order your copy at www.postcardlit.com/store today! Preorders and orders ship soon!

You've got a few more weeks to send your poems my way for the first issue of @autocorrectmag.bsky.social --

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One year VAP in poetry at Notre Dame:

Thank you, Emily! I’ll be in your corner always!

Thank you to @poetrydaily.bsky.social for sharing this one from Circle Back—🪁🔥🏍️

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Jury duty summons for Spring Break. Cool.

Perhaps. It’s more the front of the knee though. I’ll get back to it soon I hope!

As of yesterday, I've run 281 miles this year--had an amazing 8 miler yesterday. Woke up this morning and my now my left knee will barely bend. Right one is fine. I guess this is just late 40s living?

Love this generous description of Larry Levis' "system":

"Extant documentation of the state in which Levis's materials were initially found following his death indicates that Levis likely maintain only a very rudimentary organizational system."

overheard my son this morning talking to his sister: "even though it's not still Valentine's Day, we can still be nice to each other."

widespread chaos always means profit for the rich. especially when the rich create the chaos.

Louise Glück

safe to say those of us expecting tax refunds this year should just go ahead and stop expecting?

biggest weekend plan is taking a long nap tomorrow.

I don't think I do, sadly. Will ask my librarians about it!