Adam Tavel’s prose has appeared in The Georgia Review, Pleiades, Rain Taxi, The Chattahoochee Review, The Explicator, The Cafe Review, Alehouse, and The James Dickey Review, among others. Additionally, he served as the reviews editor for Plume from 2016-2017, where he reviewed 38 books over the course of 24 consecutive monthly issues in his capacity as resident critic.
Book Reviews at Plume
- Mini-reviews of Cameron Barnett’s The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water and Maggie Smith’s Good Bones (December 2017)
- Review of Tim Seibles’ One Turn Around the Sun (November 2017)
- Review of Nancy Chen Long’s Light Into Bodies (October 2017)
- Review of William Brewer’s I Know Your Kind (September 2017)
- Mini-reviews of Mark Cox’s Sorrow Bread and Bill Knott’s I Am Flying Into Myself (August 2017)
- Review of Patricia Smith’s Incendiary Art (July 2017)
- Review of Robert Gibb’s After (June 2017)
- Mini-reviews of Tommye Blount’s What Are We Not For, Jennifer Givhan’s Lifeline, Sarah Pape’s Ruination Atlas, and Shelly Wong’s Rare Birds (May 2017)
- Review of Janice N. Harrington’s Primitive (April 2017)
- Review of Frannie Lindsay’s If Mercy (March 2017)
- Review of Anna Świrszczyńska’s Building the Barricade (trans. Piotr Florczyk) (February 2017)
- Review of Katharine Rauk’s Buried Choirs (January 2017)
- Mini-reviews of Hera Lindsay Bird’s Hera Lindsay Bird, Michelle Bitting’s The Couple Who Fell to Earth, Bruce Bond’s Black Anthem, Aracelis Girmay’s The Black Maria, and Connie Wanek’s Rival Gardens (December 2016)
- Review of Mark Yakich’s Poetry: A Survivor’s Guide (November 2016)
- Review of Lucia Perillo’s Time Will Clean the Carcass Bones (October 2016)
- Review of Grevel Lindop’s Luna Park (September 2016)
- Review of Mahtem Shiferraw’s Fuchsia (August 2016)
- Review of Adrian C. Louis’s Random Exorcisms (July 2016)
- Rviews of Christopher DeWeese’s The Father of the Arrow Is the Thought and Amelia Martens’ The Spoons in the Grass Are There to Dig a Moat (June 2016)
- Review of The Oppens Remembered (ed. Rachel Blau DuPlessis) (May 2016)
- Mini-reviews of Bruce Bond’s For the Lost Cathedral, Marsha de la O’s Antidote for Night, Joe Denham’s Regeneration Machine, and Zarah Catherine Moeggenberg’s To Waltz on a Pin (April 2016)
- Review of The Poetry of Yehuda Amichai (March 2016)
- Review of Greta Stoddart’s Alive Alive O (February 2016)
- Reviews of Daneen Wardrop’s Cyclorama and Reginald Dwayne Betts’s Bastards of the Reagan Era (January 2016)
Assorted Book Reviews & Essays
- Essay on book reviewing at CutBank Online
- Review of Ben Howard’s Firewood and Ashes at Poetry Northwest
- Review of Geoffrey Hill’s Broken Hierarchies at Rain Taxi
- Review of Sue Ellen Thompson’s They at Gravel
- Review of Karen Holmberg’s Axis Mundi at CutBank Online
- Review of Catherine MacDonald’s Rousing the Machinery at 32 Poems
- Review of Julianne Buchsbaum’s The Apothecary’s Heir at The Rumpus
- Review of Nancy Mitchell’s Grief Hut at Colorado Review
- Review of Lynn Emanuel’s Noose and Hook at Poets’ Quarterly
Contributions to The RS 500
- Essay on The Who’s My Generation
- Essay on The Doors’ Strange Days
- Essay on Cheap Trick’s At Budokan
- Essay on Stan Getz’s Getz/Gilberto
- Mini-interview with The RS 500 on Tumblr
Interviews
- Interview with Norman Dubie at Plume
- Interview with Bruce Bond at The Puritan
- Interview with Eric Anderson at Connotation Press: An Online Artifact
- Interview with William Hathaway at Poets’ Quarterly
- Interview with Stacie Leatherman reprinted at Conte
- Interview with Roger Weingarten reprinted at Conte
