Adam Day

Adam Day
Born Louisville, Kentucky
Nationality American
Alma mater New York University
Occupation Poet and critic
Organization Baltic Writing Residency
Notable work Model of a City in Civil War and Badger, Apocrypha
Board member of Louisville Literary Arts

Adam Day is an American poet and critic. He is the author of one full-length collection of poetry and one chapbook of poetry.

Life and work

Day was born in raised 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, which was founded in 2008 in an effort to nurture the literary arts by each year offering individuals a month-long residency at the Hotel Bergs in Riga, Latvia; a week-long residency at a historic croft cottage in Brora, Scotland; three months at Bernheim Arboretum & Research Forest, just outside Louisville, Kentucky.

Day is also vice president of the organization, Louisville Literary Arts, and has curated the InKY Reading Series at the Bard's Town since 2012. He is a contributing editor for The Tusculum Review and Memorious.

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." [1] 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."[2]

Honors and awards

Collections of poetry

Poems

Reviews and interviews

References

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