Adam Day

Day was born and raised primarily in Louisville's working class south end. He graduated from Eckerd College (2001), and from New York University (2004) with an MFA in creative writing.

He is currently director of the Baltic Writing Residency,[1] "which was founded in 2008 in an effort to nurture the literary arts by each year offering individuals a month-long residency in Stockholm, Sweden; a week-long residency at a historic croft cottage in Brora, Scotland; three months at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest, just outside Louisville, Kentucky."

Day also publishes Action, Spectacle, an online and print journal of art and culture, which is guest-edited by a changing lineup of writers, thinkers and artists.

He has taught English and creative writing at Earlham College, New York University, Bellarmine University, the University of Houston, the University of Kentucky, and elsewhere.

Day's work "creates a liminal space wherein references to strange historical anecdotes share a stage with more introspective and personal utterances."[2] In 2011, Day was selected by David Lehman for the PEN Emerging Writers Award, citing "Day is unafraid to conjoin historical and fictional personages for effects that startle and provoke, as in 'Combine,' in which Stalin, Goya, Queen Anne, and Tennessee Williams are among the cast of characters. Impressive, too, is the poem in which Day juxtaposes excerpts 'From an Interview with Kenzaburo Oe, with Stage Directions from Synge's Riders to the Sea.' This poet's technical prowess, adventurousness, and wide-ranging curiosity give pleasure now and the promise of a great deal more to come."[3]

• Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council[4]
• PEN Emerging Writers Award[5] (citation by David Lehman)
• Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship for Badger, Apocrypha[6]

• Left-Handed Wolf (forthcoming, Louisiana State University Press, 2020),
• Model of a City in Civil War. Sarabande Books, 2015. ISBN 1941411029; ISBN 978-1941411025
• Badger, Apocrypha. Poetry Society of America, 2010.

• "Geography and Customs" at Prelude
• "Father Benides" at Boston Review
• "What Would I Document" at The Collagist
• Three Poems at PEN America
• "We Must Get You Interested in a Girl" at The Volta's They Will Sew the Blue Sail
• "Guys Like Us" at BOMB
• "Letters from Shore" and "You Can Get Used to Almost Anything" at Diagram
• "The Gods Describe Building Bodies Like Badger's" from Badger, Apocrypha at the Poetry Society of America (first appeared in Guernica)
• "Low Tide" at Interrupture
• "Several Poems" at Tusculum Review
• "Security" at the Poetry Society of America
• "Unease" at TYPO
• "Two Poems" at Transom
• "The Revolution" at decomP
• Various at One Pause Poetry
• Three Poems at Smoking Glue Gun
• "Albert the Pig Speaks" at Verse Daily (first appeared in New Madrid)
• "The Cow" at Verse Daily (first appeared in Margie)

• The Harvard Review review of Model of a City in Civil War (September, 2015)
• Publishers Weekly review of Model of a City in Civil War (April, 2015)
• The Collagist interview with Day conducted by Christina Oddo (June 17, 2015)
• Memorious interview with Day conducted by Dave Harrity (July 20, 2015)
• Accents Radio Show audio interview conducted by Katerina Stoykova-Klemer (April 1, 2011)