Adam O. Davis
@cubistoctopus.bsky.social
Purveyor of words & images / Author of PYRRHIC SYMPHONY (UNIV. OF NEBRASKA, 2026) & INDEX OF HAUNTED HOUSES (SARABANDE, 2020) & its hotline: 619-329-5757.
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Adam O. Davis
@cubistoctopus.bsky.social
· Aug 13
We're excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize! In poetry, Adam O. Davis (@cubistoctopus.bsky.social) is the winner for Pyrrhic Symphony. In fiction, Micah Dean Hicks (@micahdeanhicks.com) is the winner for Vulture Gold.
Read more: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
Read more: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
Beyond delighted that my poetry collection, Pyrrhic Symphony, won the Raz/Shumaker prize from @prairie-schooner.bsky.social! Deepest, deepest thanks to the editors & readers!
Still reeling from the news from @prairie-schooner.bsky.social & all the more delighted to announce that my second poetry collection, PYRRHIC SYMPHONY, will be published by @univnebpress.bsky.social almost exactly one year from today! Can't wait to share the book with you next September!
Congratulations to the winners of the Raz-Shumaker @prairie-schooner.bsky.social Book Prizes: Adam O. Davis (@cubistoctopus.bsky.social) and @micahdeanhicks.com
Adam O. Davis and Micah Dean Hicks win 2025 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prizes
The winner of the 2025 Raz-Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry is Adam O. Davis for “Pyrrhic Symphony,” chosen by guest judges Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Hilda Raz with Timothy Schaffert, Glenna Luschei Editor-in-Chief of Prairie Schooner. Davis will receive a $3,000 award and publication by the University of Nebraska Press. Adam O. Davis, Micah Dean Hicks Rowan Ricardo Phillips praised Davis’s poetry, writing, “
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September 3, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Still reeling from the news from @prairie-schooner.bsky.social & all the more delighted to announce that my second poetry collection, PYRRHIC SYMPHONY, will be published by @univnebpress.bsky.social almost exactly one year from today! Can't wait to share the book with you next September!
Reposted by Adam O. Davis
Guest judges, Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Hilda Raz, praises @cubistoctopus.bsky.social's Pyrrhic Symphony, winner of the 2025 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in poetry, which @univnebpress.bsky.social will publish.
Visit our blog to read more about the manuscript: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
Visit our blog to read more about the manuscript: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
August 15, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Guest judges, Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Hilda Raz, praises @cubistoctopus.bsky.social's Pyrrhic Symphony, winner of the 2025 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in poetry, which @univnebpress.bsky.social will publish.
Visit our blog to read more about the manuscript: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
Visit our blog to read more about the manuscript: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
Beyond delighted that my poetry collection, Pyrrhic Symphony, won the Raz/Shumaker prize from @prairie-schooner.bsky.social! Deepest, deepest thanks to the editors & readers!
We're excited to announce the winners of the 2025 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize! In poetry, Adam O. Davis (@cubistoctopus.bsky.social) is the winner for Pyrrhic Symphony. In fiction, Micah Dean Hicks (@micahdeanhicks.com) is the winner for Vulture Gold.
Read more: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
Read more: prairieschooner.unl.edu/digital-scho...
August 13, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Beyond delighted that my poetry collection, Pyrrhic Symphony, won the Raz/Shumaker prize from @prairie-schooner.bsky.social! Deepest, deepest thanks to the editors & readers!
Reposted by Adam O. Davis
Excited to dive in! @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social going strong at 40. Kudos @ovillalon.bsky.social & contributors @arlozoroff.bsky.social
@cubistoctopus.bsky.social
@poetkellycm.bsky.social
@mpalaia.bsky.social
@fetaplace.bsky.social
@dapowell.bsky.social
@kimsamek.bsky.social
@gregoryspatz.bsky.social
@cubistoctopus.bsky.social
@poetkellycm.bsky.social
@mpalaia.bsky.social
@fetaplace.bsky.social
@dapowell.bsky.social
@kimsamek.bsky.social
@gregoryspatz.bsky.social
June 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Excited to dive in! @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social going strong at 40. Kudos @ovillalon.bsky.social & contributors @arlozoroff.bsky.social
@cubistoctopus.bsky.social
@poetkellycm.bsky.social
@mpalaia.bsky.social
@fetaplace.bsky.social
@dapowell.bsky.social
@kimsamek.bsky.social
@gregoryspatz.bsky.social
@cubistoctopus.bsky.social
@poetkellycm.bsky.social
@mpalaia.bsky.social
@fetaplace.bsky.social
@dapowell.bsky.social
@kimsamek.bsky.social
@gregoryspatz.bsky.social
Not to be confused with your favorite film/poetry podcast—Poetry Goes to the Movies—I’m very glad to have my poem about Charlton Heston’s many ends of the world as seen from what felt like the end of our world featured in this poetry/film anthology edited by Suzanne Lummis.
May 22, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Not to be confused with your favorite film/poetry podcast—Poetry Goes to the Movies—I’m very glad to have my poem about Charlton Heston’s many ends of the world as seen from what felt like the end of our world featured in this poetry/film anthology edited by Suzanne Lummis.
If you know me, you know I was struck by lightning when I was a teenager. I’m delighted that the essay I finally wrote about it was a finalist for the @newlettersmagazine.bsky.social Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction. My thanks to Christie Hodges for publishing it.
May 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
If you know me, you know I was struck by lightning when I was a teenager. I’m delighted that the essay I finally wrote about it was a finalist for the @newlettersmagazine.bsky.social Conger Beasley Jr. Award for Nonfiction. My thanks to Christie Hodges for publishing it.
Reposted by Adam O. Davis
Many, many thanks to Faith Hill and the poetry staff at @theatlantic.com for publishing my new poem “Fossil Record for my Grandmother” today: www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
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December 15, 2024 at 6:50 PM
Many, many thanks to Faith Hill and the poetry staff at @theatlantic.com for publishing my new poem “Fossil Record for my Grandmother” today: www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...
Delighted to have this poem from the new manuscript that invokes the mysteries of regeneration & poker & the forces that draw us together or pull us apart published in AGNI, a journal I’ve long admired & have just as long longed to be part of.
October 29, 2023 at 5:18 AM
Delighted to have this poem from the new manuscript that invokes the mysteries of regeneration & poker & the forces that draw us together or pull us apart published in AGNI, a journal I’ve long admired & have just as long longed to be part of.
Reposted by Adam O. Davis
Lord
you
kept right on going downhill
badly slurred
The road you were on
(from Hotel Almighty)
you
kept right on going downhill
badly slurred
The road you were on
(from Hotel Almighty)
October 16, 2023 at 1:57 AM
Lord
you
kept right on going downhill
badly slurred
The road you were on
(from Hotel Almighty)
you
kept right on going downhill
badly slurred
The road you were on
(from Hotel Almighty)
With Halloween nigh it’s high time to wish a happy belated third birthday to the INDEX. Thank you to everyone who’s read & supported it over the years, especially @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. Extra special thanks to my daughters’ art direction—“make it spookier,” they insisted; so we did.
October 10, 2023 at 12:58 AM
With Halloween nigh it’s high time to wish a happy belated third birthday to the INDEX. Thank you to everyone who’s read & supported it over the years, especially @sarabandebooks.bsky.social. Extra special thanks to my daughters’ art direction—“make it spookier,” they insisted; so we did.
An action shot of me dishing out a poem from the second manuscript (my printer’s busted & I refuse to read off a phone so I wrote it out) to celebrate PLNU’s 25th Annual Poetry Day. Thanks again to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for the invite & to the 24 other readers for their poems.
October 6, 2023 at 2:00 AM
An action shot of me dishing out a poem from the second manuscript (my printer’s busted & I refuse to read off a phone so I wrote it out) to celebrate PLNU’s 25th Annual Poetry Day. Thanks again to @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social for the invite & to the 24 other readers for their poems.
Good people of San Diego—it’s happening tonight at PLNU: 25 years in 25 poems!
September 28, 2023 at 8:06 PM
Good people of San Diego—it’s happening tonight at PLNU: 25 years in 25 poems!
Reposted by Adam O. Davis
For every new follow, @sarabandebooks.bsky.social will mail El*n an envelope full of glitter
![Princess Bride still: “Westley and I are joined by the bonds of [hating El*n]. And you cannot track that, not with a thousand bloodhounds, and you cannot break it, not with a thousand swords.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rwjki5lrpnd47s54dmedroxa/bafkreibn5ooarqryczme74o25d46etq523isxpu5zmy2egu2yerwbwqpsa@jpeg)
September 6, 2023 at 12:59 AM
For every new follow, @sarabandebooks.bsky.social will mail El*n an envelope full of glitter
Reposted by Adam O. Davis
@sarabandebooks.bsky.social poets are here!
@karismaprice.bsky.social
@sjane.bsky.social
@simonshieh.bsky.social
@cubistoctopus.bsky.social
@petermishler.bsky.social
@categoryofoutcast.bsky.social
…& of course the poets on our staff: @joannaenglert.bsky.social
@danikaaaaaah.bsky.social
& moi
@karismaprice.bsky.social
@sjane.bsky.social
@simonshieh.bsky.social
@cubistoctopus.bsky.social
@petermishler.bsky.social
@categoryofoutcast.bsky.social
…& of course the poets on our staff: @joannaenglert.bsky.social
@danikaaaaaah.bsky.social
& moi
September 26, 2023 at 1:14 PM
@sarabandebooks.bsky.social poets are here!
@karismaprice.bsky.social
@sjane.bsky.social
@simonshieh.bsky.social
@cubistoctopus.bsky.social
@petermishler.bsky.social
@categoryofoutcast.bsky.social
…& of course the poets on our staff: @joannaenglert.bsky.social
@danikaaaaaah.bsky.social
& moi
@karismaprice.bsky.social
@sjane.bsky.social
@simonshieh.bsky.social
@cubistoctopus.bsky.social
@petermishler.bsky.social
@categoryofoutcast.bsky.social
…& of course the poets on our staff: @joannaenglert.bsky.social
@danikaaaaaah.bsky.social
& moi
Glad to officially join the party!
Oh hey!! It’s @cubistoctopus.bsky.social, you guys! 🙌🙌
September 11, 2023 at 7:41 PM
Glad to officially join the party!