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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

My thanks to the indefatigable & ever-perceptive @robmclennan.bsky.social for this review of PYRRHIC SYMPHONY ( @univnebpress.bsky.social & @prairie-schooner.bsky.social )!

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Thanks so much—honored to have one of the poems in the book published in @cincinnatireview.bsky.social !

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What a week to launch PYRRHIC SYMPHONY! I’ve happily burnt rubber & leather to celebrate the book with friends old & new in places strange & familiar. Big thanks to @univnebpress.bsky.social & @prairie-schooner.bsky.social & everyone who read with me & picked up a copy!

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The Cincinnati Review @cincinnatireview.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Congratulations to contributor @cubistoctopus.bsky.social on this week's publication of PYRRHIC SYMPHONY with @univnebpress.bsky.social !

CR book release graphic featuring the cover of "Pyrrhic Symphony" by Adam O. Davis: a blurred street crossing symbol in black on a white background.

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Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Happy publication day to 2025 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize Winners Adam O. Davis and Micah Dean Hicks! Learn more about their collections: prairieschooner.unl.edu/book-prize/ @cubistoctopus.bsky.social @micahdeanhicks.com @univnebpress.bsky.social

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

What a stunner of an issue from @prairie-schooner.bsky.social! Honored to have my poem, "The States," which will be featured in my forthcoming book, PYRRHIC SYMPHONY, included!

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Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

The Loneliness Issue is here! Our Spring 2026 issue is now shipping. See the full table of contents, read excerpts from the issue, and order your own copy here: prairieschooner.unl.edu/issue/spring...

New Issue

Cover of the Lonelines issue of Prairie Schooner, featuring an image of two people sitting on a bench in front of a painting of a couple in a room (Edward Hopper's Room in New York)

Contributors
Spring 2026
Volume 100 Number 1

Kurt Andersen
Daniel Barnum
David Hernandez
Ross White
Andrew Garvin
Olufunke Ogundimu
Teo Rivera-Dundas
Christtie Jay
L. A. Johnson
Scott Cairns
Alex Tretbar
Robert Brian Mulder
Jeremy Tavares
Warren Woessner
Alexandra Malouf
Tara Mesalik MacMahon
Judith Vollmer
Matt Barrett
Terese Svoboda
Jeannine Hall Gailey
Adam O. Davis
Kelan Nee
Daniel Hales
Milena Nigam
Elizabeth Crane
Edwardson Ukata
Winniebell Xinyu Zong
Bryan Obinna Okwesili
Brad Aaron Modlin
Chisom Okafor
Cynthia Sylvester
Saddiq Dzukogi
Yosra Bouslama
Ervin Krause
Rose McLarney
Jamila Osman
Ciara Altaro
Aimee Nezhukumatathil

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Delighted to be reading for @montrealprize.bsky.social’s Fluid Vessels next Saturday (or Sunday depending on your time zone)! Tune in via the link below:

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Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Cover reveal! Coming September 2026: the winners of the 2026 Raz/Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction and Poetry. Preorder through @univnebpress.bsky.social: www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978... @micahdeanhicks.com @cubistoctopus.bsky.social

Micah Dean Hicks
Vulture Gold
Stories
The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction

Pyrrhic Symphony
Adam O. Davis
The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Stoked to present the cover for PYRRHIC SYMPHONY! Nearly 20 years ago I saw this piece by the brilliant Wayne Zebzda & it means so much that it’s now the cover of my forthcoming collection, which is available for preorders. Thanks again to @univnebpress.bsky.social & @prairie-schooner.bsky.social!

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Many thanks to @droderick77.bsky.social for bringing me aboard @adroitjournal.bsky.social’s Larry Levis retrospective—was glad to contribute an essay about the great poet’s work, not to mention be in the company of so many fine writers.

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

PYRRHIC SYMPHONY arrives in nine months! I’m so grateful to @univnebpress.bsky.social & @prairie-schooner.bsky.social for shepherding it into the world & if you’re interested in hearing this symphony out loud, drop me a line. Can’t wait to share it with you all in September!

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Though I’ve yet to visit, Louisville’s always been good to me & my work. Deep thanks to @miraclemonocle.bsky.social for publishing three poems from my forthcoming collection (PYRRHIC SYMPHONY out 9/1/26 from @univnebpress.bsky.social )! Check them out via the link below.

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Brian A. Salmons @brianasalmons.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Really liked the poem 'Terminal Felicity' by @cubistoctopus.bsky.social in the latest @miraclemonocle.bsky.social ... "She whispers like the wind once whispered: / In the end, / you are the end— / the lisp before the longest dusk..."

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Appreciate it, Brian! These poems will be in my new collection, Pyrrhic Symphony, which is due out next September.

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Miracle Monocle @miraclemonocle.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We’re thrilled to announce the release of Issue 25 of Miracle Monocle—the first issue to launch on our beautiful new website! Enjoy it (for free!) on your phone or desktop! 🧡

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

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!

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Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

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...

Excerpts of Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Hilda Raz’s praises for Adam O. Davis's Pyrrhic Symphony:

“Pyrrhic Symphony is wild, whip-smart, and irreverent—a maximalist elegy for late capitalism and ecological disaster, set to a beat both comic and catastrophic.” - Rowan Ricardo Phillips

“Pyrrhic Symphony is a wail of a book. We’re in some surreal hospital of a dying world attended by a nurse and the bird of the mystery at the heart of the speaker. The self is ever morphing, distorted by pollution and greed, consuming everything.” - Hilda Raz

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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!

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

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.

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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.

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Dara Yen Elerath @daraelerath.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

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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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 29/10/2023

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.

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SarahJSloat @sjane.bsky.social · 16/10/2023

Lord you kept right on going downhill badly slurred The road you were on (from Hotel Almighty)

Book page with most of the text x-acto knifed-out to create an erasure. Images are placed behind the cut-out areas, including an artist's drawing of power lines, a German bank ad from the 60s or so, and flowers from a perfume ad, I believe it was Gucci.

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

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.

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

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.

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Good people of San Diego—it’s happening tonight at PLNU: 25 years in 25 poems!

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Kristen Renee Miller @kristenmiller.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

For every new follow, @sarabandebooks.bsky.social will mail El*n an envelope full of glitter

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Adam O. Davis @cubistoctopus.bsky.social · 11/09/2023

Glad to officially join the party!

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