Adam Tavel’s poems have appeared, or will soon appear, in several print publications, including Appalachian Review, The Arkansas International, Arts & Letters, The Asheville Poetry Review, 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, Connecticut River Review, Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, Crab Creek Review, Crazyhorse, Cream City Review, Ecotone, The Emerson Review, Faultline, The Georgia Review, The Gettysburg Review, Glassworks, The Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, The Hollins Critic, Indiana Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, The Journal, Kestrel, The Los Angeles Review, The Louisville Review, The Massachusetts Review, Meridian, The Midwest Quarterly, The Minnesota Review, The Moth, New Ohio Review, New Welsh Review, Ninth Letter, The North, North American Review, The Northern Virginia Review, The Ocean State Review, Oxford Poetry, Passages North, Phoebe, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, The Portland Review, Potomac Review, Quarter After Eight, Redactions, RHINO, Salamander, Santa Fe Literary Review, Sheepshead Review, 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, West Branch, Western Humanities Review, Willow Springs, Yemassee, and Zone 3, among others.
You can read the following poems online:
- “At Birth” and “Belated Elegy for Paul Taylor, Tory Loyalist, Lynched in 1780” in The American Journal of Poetry
- “The Crisfield Winter Consumptives of 1908,” “The Light Precipitate of Ashes,” “Phil Spector Points a Loaded Pistol,” and “Saying the Rosary” in American Literary Review
- “The Devouring,” “Until the Beast Was Slain,” and “Where His Lines Run” in At Length
- “Docent” in Bear Review
- “The Pornographer” and “Midnight Flounder” in The Boiler
- “On Millet’s The Gleaners“ in Cold Mountain Review
- “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
- “Forever Elegy” in The Cortland Review
- “Staring at Echenagusia’s Samson & Delilah Every Morning for a Month” in Court Green
- “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
- “Revising the Waiting Room Sign” in Diagram
- “Mayflower Bastard” in Dialogist
- “An Abandoned Fort in the Woods,” “At the Fairbanks Airport,” “The Blue Daughters of Hotton,” “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,” “Fifteen Wyeths,” “Gold Penumbras,” “In the Beginning,” and “Target Practice” in Diode
- “August Surfers at Assateague” and “Sheep Above Vermillion Lakes” in The Dodge
- “Orphan Lights” in Hawaii Review
- “Son Net” in Heron Tree
- “Motel Light” and “For a Friend in Mourning” in The Indianapolis Review
- “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
- “Consecration” and “Triplets at a Ouija Board, 1951” in The Los Angeles Review
- “Diagnosis” in The Maine Review
- “Cain” in The Manchester Review
- “Nightie” and “Skull Winter” in The McNeese Review
- “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
- “On an Unfinished Portrait of Thomas Hardy” in The National Poetry Review
- “No. 6 (Violet, Green, and Red),” “On a Photograph of Archeologist Howard Carter, 1924,” and “Figures on a Beach” in New Critique
- “Construction Paper Flags Tacked to a Primary School Bulletin Board” in New Ohio Review
- “Pieta” and “Carousel” in The Night Heron Barks
- “A Baptism and Hired Hand” in The Northern Virginia Review
- “On a Photograph of Scott Weiland at the Virgin Festival, Calgary, 2008” in The Ocean State Review
- “At the County Morgue” and “Election Night” in The Offing
- “The Sutton Hoo Helmet” in On the Seawall
- “Lesson Plan” in Pacifica Literary Review
- “Infant Refuge” and “The 1909 Maryland Field Phantoms of Lewis Wickes Hine, National Child Labor Photographer” in Passages North
- “Trust Fall” in The Penn Review
- “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
- “Selected Poems” in Pine Hills Review
- “The Harrow Plow,” “At the End of Practice,” “My Name in Sticks,” “Resurrection Horse,” “The Sentimentalist,” “A Child in Snow,” “Thanksgiving Chorus,” “Watching Outtakes of Orson Welles Playing Othello on YouTube,” “Slaughterhouse Ruins at Aledo,” and “Red Abstraction” in Plume
- “Companion Planting” reprinted in Poetry Daily
- “Fable,” “A Drought September,” “The Loneliness of Kings,” “Black Lotus,” and “On What Have Been My Father’s 65th Birthday” in Puerto del Sol
- “Cora Taylor’s Letter to Joseph Conrad Following the Death of Her Lover Stephen Crane” in Quarterly West
- “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
- “In the Neurology Wing of Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center” in Saint Katherine 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
- “Community College Office Hours” in The Summerset Review
- “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,” “Letter to Schnell Written on Glovebox Napkins,” and “An Engraving of a Woman Entering an Abortion Clinic” in Thrush
- “Morning Jog on Boxing Day” and “Downtown Goodwill Discount Thursday” in Tinderbox Poetry Journal
- “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
- “Word Problem,” “Against Elegy” , “Still Life with Burn Barrel,” “Halloween Vespers with Homemade Vader”, “Sleeping Quarters,” and “Practice Room” 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
- “Somerset County Cold Case Photo, 1980” and “A Dark Pool” in Wild Court
- “A Nursing Program’s Simulation Lab on the Morning After Graduation” in The Westchester Review
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