Janet McAdams
Janet McAdams is the author of the chapbook Seven Boxes for the Country After (Kent State, 2016), the novel Red Weather (Arizona, 2012), and two collections of poetry, Feral (Salt, 2007) and The Island of Lost Luggage (Arizona, 2000), which won the American Book Award. She teaches at Kenyon College, where she is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry and an editor at large for the Kenyon Review.
Reading List
Fist
Don’t count on the words you live beside changing: grief becoming ribbon, tree wolf, cinnamon suitcase or wealthy or snore or slobber. Because nothing besides Heaven changes, does it? Only a yellowing sky from the storm hovering over the sleeping. Wish for a word like startle—what it might signify to an animal small as a […]
Thanatoptic
Not for the wild girl who taught me French kissing. Or other poets with their leaps and plastic bags and ovens. The first, that older boy from school who bagged our bread and eggs late afternoons. His brother, three desks back, kept his head down two days running, until the teacher made him lift his […]