Allison Adair

Allison Adair's poems appear in Best New Poets 2015, Boston Review, Mississippi Review and Missouri Review. She is winner of the Fall 2015 Orlando Prize and the 2014 Fineline Poetry Competition. Adair teaches at Boston College and Grub Street.
Reading List
Gettysburg
Gettysburg The peacock’s spurs are caught again in the diamond chickenwire of his low slanted pen. Nobody bothers anymore to hammer the sagging barn. Summer visitors regard the old farm from cars without chrome, up on the hastily paved path— …