Author Archives: Adam Penna

Forthcoming Publications

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Adam Penna

I heard some good news from the editors of The Southampton Review.  They have accepted three poems from To an Imaginary Friend, the follow-up sequence to Lyrics to Genji, numbers 4, 12 and 14.  Thanks to Julie Sheehan, Lou Ann Walker and … Continue reading →

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Goodreads Giveaway

Posted on October 28, 2013 by Adam Penna

Thanks to SKG and the upcoming readings we’ve got planned in Northern VA, I’ve not only started a Goodreads account, but I’ve also initiated a giveaway for Little Songs & Lyrics to Genji.  If you want to win a copy, … Continue reading →

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On Faith, Not-Faith, Poetry & Death*

Posted on August 18, 2013 by Adam Penna

A poet is constantly in a state of reassessment as long as he desires to be a vital presence, whether on the page or in the world.   So I have continuously and obsessively turned the object, the diamond of poetry, … Continue reading →

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On Poetic Development*

Posted on August 17, 2013 by Adam Penna

Poets, perhaps unlike poems, are born not made, but they aren’t born in the womb so much as they are born in the world–maybe even as the result of the world.  Stevens often referred to the world as the mother, … Continue reading →

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Upcoming Readings

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Adam Penna

Friday, November 1, 2013 Poets on Childlessness and Parenthood featuring Margaret Bashaar, Sarah Kain Gutowski and Adam Penna at the Great Falls Library 9830 Georgetown Pike Great Falls, VA 6 p.m. (followed by wine reception) Saturday, November 2, 2013 Poets … Continue reading →

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Pushcart Nomination

Posted on December 27, 2012 by Adam Penna

I heard on Xmas Eve that my poem “The Dark of Sheds,” which recently appeared in the Cider Press Review, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.  Many thanks to Caron and the other editors at CPR for their continued … Continue reading →

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Poem in New Issue of Long Island Quarterly

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Adam Penna

I’ve got a new poem in Long Island Quarterly’s Fall/Winter issue.  Please check it out here.  And thanks to George Wallace for his continued support.

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Poem in Cider Press Review 14.2

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Adam Penna

Thanks to the editors at CPR for publishing The Dark of Sheds.

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On an “Original Relation to the Universe”

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Adam Penna

“Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe?” –from Nature, Ralph Waldo Emerson On a short walk this morning†, I noticed that ghostly day-moon above me and began to think of those wonderful Stevens’ poems, where … Continue reading →

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On Poetry & Change

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Adam Penna

I fear that I’m not a very good friend sometimes.  I can be thoughtless and absentminded, and even when I think to call the people I love–and I do love them–the phone seems suddenly to weigh ten tons, and I … Continue reading →

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