Clayton Adam Clark
Clayton Adam Clark lives in St. Louis, his hometown, where he works as a public health researcher and volunteers for River Styx magazine. His debut poetry collection, A Finitude of Skin (Moon City Press, 2018), won the Moon City Poetry Award. He is a recipient of an Artist Support Grant from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, and his poems appear in Salamander, Ocean City Review, and elsewhere. He earned an MFA in poetry at Ohio State University and recently completed his master’s in clinical mental health counseling at University of Missouri-St. Louis.
Reading List
Chain-link
I’m at the weeds growing into my fence, not the mulberry the previous owners let intertwine with the chain-link, the woodened stalks now inseparable from steel, but winter creeper I rip out of the ground and fence line, the winter creeper that crawled up and into my neighbor’s tree, a venous strangulation leading to half […]