Adam Tavel’s poems have appeared, or will soon appear, in several print publications, including The Arkansas International, Arts & Letters, Atlanta Review, Barrow Street, Beloit Poetry Journal, Big Muddy, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Cave Wall, The Chattahoochee Review, The Cincinnati Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Columbia College Literary Review, Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, Crazyhorse, Cream City Review, Ecotone, The Emerson Review, Forklift Ohio, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Henniker Review, Indiana Review, The Journal, Kestrel, The Los Angeles Review, The Massachusetts Review, Meridian, The Minnesota Review, New Ohio Review, New Plains Review, New Welsh Review, The Northern Virginia Review, Oxford Poetry, Parcel, Passages North, Phoebe, Pleiades, Poet Lore, The Portland Review, Potomac Review, Puerto del Sol, Quarter After Eight, RHINO, RipRap, Salamander, Sand Hills Literary Magazine, Sierra Nevada Review, The South Carolina Review, South Dakota Review, Southern Indiana Review, Southwest Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Sugar House Review, Sycamore Review, Tampa Review, Tar River Poetry, Third Coast, 32 Poems, Tule Review, West Branch, The William and Mary Review, Willow Springs, Yemassee, and Zone 3, among others.

You can read the following poems online:

• “The Crisfield Winter Consumptives of 1908,” “The Light Precipitate of Ashes,” and “Phil Spector Points a Loaded Pistol” in American Literary Review
• “The Devouring,” “Until the Beast Was Slain,” and “Where His Lines Run” in At Length
• “Charles Altamont Doyle Writes to His Son Arthur Conan from the Montrose Lunatic Asylum, 1888” and “Still Life with Denver Broncos Duffel Bag, 1989” in Anti-
• “The Pornographer” and “Midnight Flounder” in The Boiler
• “Elegy for Jim Harrison,” “First Communion,” “Letter to Weingarten Written as the Script for an Imaginary Western,” “A Wiffle Ball at the County Dump,” “Widow’s Lament,” and “Witness 483: Phoenix Lights Incident, 1997” in Connotation Press: An Online Artifact 
• “A Kindergartner’s Concise History of the United States” in Copper Nickel
• “Buttercup Dunes” in Cumberland River Review
• “The Moss Mound King,” “Elegy for the Wind-Up Shepherd Boy My Mother Played That Now Sits Decapitated in My Sons’ Nursery,” and “An Athenian Shepherd Recounts the Death of Pheidippides” in Delaware Poetry Review
• “Sister Roberta’s Lecture Notes on the Shroud of Turin” in Devil’s Lake
• “Mayflower Bastard” in Dialogist
• “At the Fairbanks Airport,” “Elegy for John Fahey,” “Fever Dream in Which Anne Sexton Is My Mother Begging for Her Job at the Sunshine Supermart After Her Third Reprimand for Tardiness,” “Gold Penumbras,” “In the Beginning,” and “Target Practice” in Diode
• “Letter to Heiney Written on the Order Form of an L.L. Bean Catalog While Watching the Weather Channel” in Flyway
• “Orphan Lights” in Hawaii Review
• “Son Net” in Heron Tree
• “Operation Pike, Vietnam, 1967” and “Before Photography” in Innisfree Poetry Journal
• “The Day After the Massacre” and “The Blacksmith’s Daughter” in Jet Fuel Review
• “The Birth of Things to Come” in Juked
• “Cain” in The Manchester Review
• “During the Seventh Inning Stretch, a Country Time Lemonade Commercial Airs” in Meridian 
• “Creation Myth,” “Catafalque,” “The Sons and Daughters of Unimpeachable Light,” “At the National Gallery,” “Gauguin’s Teeth,” “Comrade Holmes,” and “Adam’s Apocrypha” in Mudlark
• “A Baptism and Hired Hand” in The Northern Virginia Review
• “Room to Room” in The Nottingham Review
• “At the County Morgue” and “Election Night” in The Offing
• “Infant Refuge” and “The 1909 Maryland Field Phantoms of Lewis Wickes Hine, National Child Labor Photographer” in Passages North
• “Aubade for Sesame Street at 3:27 a.m. Ending with a Line from Snyder” and “A Medici Servant Recounts Leo X’s Coronation” reprinted in Permafrost 
• “Companion Planting” reprinted in Poetry Daily
• “The Harrow Plow,” “At the End of Practice,” “My Name in Sticks,” “Resurrection Horse,” “The Sentimentalist,” “A Child in Snow,” and “Thanksgiving Chorus” in Plume
• “Cora Taylor’s Letter to Joseph Conrad Following the Death of Her Lover Stephen Crane” in Quarterly West
• “At Indian River Inlet” and “The Houses of the Poor” in Queen of Cups
• “Clearance Tie” and “When We Were Very Young” in Radar Poetry
• “Seamus Heaney in Community College Summer School” in Rappahannock Review 
• “Here Lies a Patriot” in Rise Up Review
• “Halloween Vespers with Homemade Vader” in Salamander 
• “Captive Raptor” in Santa Ana River Review
• “Poem Written One-Handed While Holding a Newborn in My Arms”  and “Bloom” in Sixth Finch
• “Sympathetic Magic” in Stirring
• “The Day His Pink Slip Came” in StorySouth
• “Our Lady of Crabapple Hill” in Superstition Review 
• “A Brief History of Independence” and “A Corporate Jumper’s Whispers to the Traffic” in Terrain
• “Blue Horror” and “Letter to Schnell Written on Glovebox Napkins” in Thrush
• “Morning Jog on Boxing Day” and “Downtown Goodwill Discount Thursday” in Tinderbox Poetry Journal
• “The Throat an Open Grave” and “The Undertaker’s Son Gets Cast as Ophelia’s Gravedigger” in Toad
• “At Bowie Branch Library” and “The Executioner Geoffroy Therage Repents for Burning Joan of Arc” in Tupelo Quarterly
• “Apastron,” “On a Biographical Pamphlet of Luther Ladd, First Martyr of the Civil War, Who Died During the 1861 Baltimore Riot” and “My Wife’s Swimming Lessons at Hampshire Heights Apartments” in Valparaiso Poetry Review
• “Against Elegy” , “Still Life with Burn Barrel,” and “Halloween Vespers with Homemade Vader” reprinted in Verse Daily 
• “Cento from the Church of the Nazarene’s Advent Marquee” in Waccamaw 
• “Ode to the Name Mark” and “Ode to Washcloths” in Watershed Review