Adam Tavel is the author of six books of poetry. His latest collections are Rubble Square and Green Regalia, both with Stephen F. Austin State University Press. His recent poems appear in North American Review, Ploughshares, The Georgia Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Ninth Letter, The Massachusetts Review, Copper Nickel, and Western Humanities Review, among others.

Other poems by Adam Tavel in Verse Daily:
August 24, 2022:   "Wetipquin Scarecrow" "wizened nightmare how you hang..."
October 27, 2021:   "Practice Room" "Inside this padded door the only sounds..."
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
"Triplets at a Ouija Board, 1951"
"A Grecian Child's Commode"
"Anthropocene"
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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