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Posts by Adam Clay

Dreamt I made a pitch to a press for a new poetry book and promptly bumped into the editor of said press five minutes later. And it wasn’t even AWP.

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The end is nigh

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guy at the coffee shop just asked his friends if they've ever heard a song by Aerosmith called "Bittersweet Symphony"

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The second issue of AUTOCORRECT is live. Thank you to these fabulous poets and thank for reading. Send me your poems!

www.autocorrectmag.com

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Volume 22, Issue 1 is in PRINT! ✨ Featuring work from 23 writers, this is an issue you want on your book shelf. Check out the contents list on our website, and order your copy today! Link in bio 💚
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Last night I landed an acceptance at a mag I’ve been sending to since 2005. You got to be stubborn, I guess, to be a poet.

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Franz Wright

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The editors at Ninth Letter have been supportive of my work for years, and I’m grateful this new poem (from book six!) has landed in their latest issue. This issue’s TOC is full of stars—I’m lucky to be among them! ✨

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Everette Maddox

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Hi friends--

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wondering if there are any literary agents here that might be down to Zoom into a class? or if anyone knows an agent who might be a good match, let me know?

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Mary Ruefle

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Poetry Review Submissions: Paying Markets

Hi poetry reviewers, writers, readers: here’s a document I made of paying reviews markets. Holler at me if you see something that needs to be updated/deleted/added! 🙏 I would appreciate it. Would love this to be a community resource for freelance writers to be paid for their criticism.

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Thinking back to your MFA days, what are some things you wish you'd been taught regarding professionalization. I have a decent list going, but I'd to hear others. Thanks, friends!

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now the true test: stepping away for a while...

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With four days to spare until the contract at work starts up, I finished a manuscript today.

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

www.usi.edu/sir/ruth-awa...

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Instagram: @tomakeroomforthesea

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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 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—

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Graham Foust in Issue One--

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

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

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AUTOCORRECT: ISSUE ONE

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

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

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I got this tattoo to memorialize the binder clip era

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

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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

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"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.

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