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Adam Clay
@adamclay.bsky.social
Poet and Professor at Louisiana State University. Most recent book is Circle Back (Milkweed Editions, 2024).
Everette Maddox
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Hi friends--

At LSU this year we are hiring three Assistant Professors: One in Folklore, one in Linguistics, and one in Writing and Rhetoric studies.

Full guidelines can be found here:
lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU

Feel free to DM me if you have questions and help us spread the word!
Louisiana State University - Careers
LSU includes institutions, facilities and programs in each of Louisiana’s 64 parishes, and its campuses stretch the length of the state from New Orleans to Shreveport. Each institution plays a vital r...
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September 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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?
August 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Mary Ruefle
August 20, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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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.
Poetry Review Submissions: Paying Markets
docs.google.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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!
August 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
With four days to spare until the contract at work starts up, I finished a manuscript today.
August 11, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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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
August 1, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Adam Clay 💙

in Southern Indiana Review

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@southerninreview.bsky.social
July 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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—
June 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Graham Foust in Issue One--

Read more here:
www.autocorrectmag.com/01/index.html
June 4, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Day 150. 5/30/25. “Some Mood”. Adam Clay. #poemaday365
May 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Here is a new Literary Online Journal project by Adam Clay. The first issue. Please give it a read.
www.autocorrectmag.com/about.html
AUTOCORRECT: ISSUE ONE
www.autocorrectmag.com
May 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Grateful to have a couple of new poems in here. Big thanks, @adamclay.bsky.social
May 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
May 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I had thoughts about the plantation burning. Lots of thoughts.

time.com/7287295/burn...
The Burning of Nottoway Plantation
A fire at the Nottoway Plantation raises an important question: how do we treat locations with heinous histories?
time.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Wanda Coleman
April 30, 2025 at 3:02 PM
"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.
April 11, 2025 at 12:50 AM
April 9, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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Issue 3 is here! 10 postcards with 10 poems by 10 amazing poets (Emma Bolden, Adam Clay, Jessica Cuello, Erin Dorney, Susan Leary, Erin Malone, Nora Nadjarian, Michael Robins, Diane Wald, and Jane Zwart). Order your copy at www.postcardlit.com/store today! Preorders and orders ship soon!
March 31, 2025 at 2:38 PM
You've got a few more weeks to send your poems my way for the first issue of @autocorrectmag.bsky.social --

www.autocorrectmag.com

Please feel free to repost!
March 24, 2025 at 5:58 PM
One year VAP in poetry at Notre Dame:
March 24, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Thank you to @poetrydaily.bsky.social for sharing this one from Circle Back—🪁🔥🏍️

poems.com/poem/some-mo...
March 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Jury duty summons for Spring Break. Cool.
March 15, 2025 at 2:23 AM
As of yesterday, I've run 281 miles this year--had an amazing 8 miler yesterday. Woke up this morning and my now my left knee will barely bend. Right one is fine. I guess this is just late 40s living?
March 7, 2025 at 9:22 PM