Adam Tavel is the author of five books of poetry, including two forthcoming collections: Green Regalia (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2022) and Sum Ledger (Measure Press, 2022). His most recent collection, Catafalque, won the Richard Wilbur Award (University of Evansville Press, 2018). His recent poems appear, or will soon appear, in North American Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ninth Letter, The Massachusetts Review, and Western Humanities Review, among others.

Other poems by Adam Tavel in Verse Daily:
September 6, 2021:   "Now We Come to Ticks and Tocks" "Totally giddy and grinning as I recall the fox we happened upon..."
May 19, 2021:   "Soul Reckoning" "I'm skimming through a book called Spook..."
April 24, 2020:   "Word Problem" by "One hundred eighty thousand bison skulls..."
January 31, 2020:   "Autumn Scene in Perry County" "Mennonite girls at sunset float..."
January 31, 2019:   "Still Life with Burn Barrel" "Slow rain cascades inside the hollow eyes..."
October 3, 2018:   "Halloween Vespers with Homemade Vader" "Bless the amber porch light that coronets..."
August 19, 2017:   "Against Elegy" "Mother told me when the snoozing drunk..."

Books by Adam Tavel:

Other poems on the web by Adam Tavel:
Two poems
"My Grandfather's Light"
"An Engraving of a Woman Entering an Abortion Clinic"
"A Nursing Program's Simulation Lab on the Morning after Graduation"
"Orphan Lights"
"Faking It"
"Consecration"
"The Crisfield Winter Consumptives of 1908"
"An Abandoned Fort in the Woods"
Four poems
"Cain"
Two poems
Three poems
Three poems
Two poems
"Room to Roome"
"The Rocket"
"Camp Loss"
"Letter to Schnell Written on Glovebox Napkins"
"Our Lady of Crabapple Hill"
"Sister Roberta's Lecture Notes on the Shroud of Turin"
"Letter to my Wife Written on the Walls of a Blanket Fort"
Two poems

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Other poems by Copper Nickel in Verse Daily:
October 26, 2021:   "Like Picasso's Weeping Woman" by Martha Silano
October 25, 2021:   "Canto XXXVIII (after Buson & Issa)" by Adam Tavel
November 6, 2020:   "While Night Still Keeps Us" by Carl Phillips
November 5, 2020:   "Poem for the Year Just Past" by David Dodd Lee
November 4, 2020:   "The Year With No Address" by Megan Alpert
November 3, 2020:   "Why to Save the World" by Lisa Fay Coutley
June 1, 2020:   "Book of Dolls 2" by Bruce Bond
May 28, 2020:   "Eavesdropping on Adam and Eve" by Andrea Cohen
May 27, 2020:   "Marvelous Things without Number" by Troy Jollimore
May 26, 2020:   "The Blind" by Hadara Bar-Nadav
November 20, 2019:   "December" by David Baker
November 19, 2019:   "Childhood" by Daniel Lawless
November 18, 2019:   "Dear Jolene," by Natasha Sajé
February 19, 2019:   "Storm of the Century" Jill Osier
February 18, 2019:   "Poem for the Woods" Catherine Pierce
February 1, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Christopher Howell
January 31, 2017:   "Religious Experience" by Landon Godfrey
January 30, 2017:   "The History of Running" by Elizabeth Langemak
March 2, 2016:   "Easter Island" by Pamela Alexander
March 1, 2016:   "Easterhouse (Wyoming)" by G. C. Waldrep
February 29, 2016:   "Matryoshka (as Madness)" by Alexandra Teague
December 24, 2015:   "Circle" by Bruce Bond
December 23, 2015:   "Algebra of the Sky" by David Hernandez
December 22, 2015:   "In Its Body" by Karina Borowicz
December 21, 2015:   "Economica" by Tony Hoagland
August 13 2015:   "I Went to the Market" by Michael Bazzett
July 29 2015:   "Animal Space" by Sarah Rose Nordgren
July 28 2015:   "koalas" by Jan Wagner (tr. David Keplinger)
July 27 2015:   "I Also Do Impressions" by D.A. Powell
January 31, 2013:   "Audubon Ate His Birds" by Kristin Robertson
January 28, 2013:   "As Vivien As Blanche" by Mark Anthony Cayanan
January 26, 2013:   "Landscape After Years With Yourself, West Texas" by Shamala Gallagher
March 24, 2012:   "Lungful" by Brian D. Morrison
March 22, 2012:   "The Decorator Crab," by Sarah Giragosian
March 21, 2012:   "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" by Rick Bursky
December 2, 2011:   "A Report" by Steve Langan
March 14, 2011:   "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" by Anna Journey
November 29, 2010:   "Thirst" by Jennie Wrisley
November 26, 2010:   "Lobster" by Matthew Minicucci
February 28, 2010:   "A Whipsaw Takes Two Men" by Patricia Lockwood
February 25, 2010:   "Blót" by A. E. Watkins
February 20, 2010:   "Contrast" by Jericho Brown
February 16, 2010:   "No Narrative" by A. E. Watkins
November 11, 2009:   "Wedding Piñata" by James Hoch
November 10, 2009:   "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" by John Estes
November 8, 2009:   "Evasion of Privacy" by Jordan Davis
November 6, 2009:   "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds" by Sandy Longhorn

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