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The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction
Pyrrhic Symphony
Adam O. Davis
The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
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
16.02.2026 16:12
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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!
16.02.2026 01:55
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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.
29.01.2026 20:02
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Dinner of champions.
13.01.2026 05:04
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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.
04.12.2025 23:11
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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..."
04.12.2025 15:14
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Appreciate it, Brian! These poems will be in my new collection, Pyrrhic Symphony, which is due out next September.
04.12.2025 23:09
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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! 🧡
01.12.2025 13:45
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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!
03.09.2025 22:55
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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
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...
15.08.2025 23:38
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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!
13.08.2025 01:31
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The cover of issue 129 of the literary magazine Zyzzyva, founded in 1985.
Excited to dive in! @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social going strong at 40. Kudos @ovillalon.bsky.social & contributors @arlozoroff.bsky.social
@cubistoctopus.bsky.social
@poetkellycm.bsky.social
@mpalaia.bsky.social
@fetaplace.bsky.social
@dapowell.bsky.social
@kimsamek.bsky.social
@gregoryspatz.bsky.social
03.06.2025 15:12
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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.
22.05.2025 23:18
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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...
15.12.2024 18:50
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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.
29.10.2023 05:18
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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.
Lord
you
kept right on going downhill
badly slurred
The road you were on
(from Hotel Almighty)
16.10.2023 01:57
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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.
10.10.2023 00:58
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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.
06.10.2023 02:00
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Good people of San Diego—it’s happening tonight at PLNU: 25 years in 25 poems!
28.09.2023 20:06
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For every new follow, @sarabandebooks.bsky.social will mail El*n an envelope full of glitter
06.09.2023 00:59
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@sarabandebooks.bsky.social poets are here!
@karismaprice.bsky.social
@sjane.bsky.social
@simonshieh.bsky.social
@cubistoctopus.bsky.social
@petermishler.bsky.social
@categoryofoutcast.bsky.social
…& of course the poets on our staff: @joannaenglert.bsky.social
@danikaaaaaah.bsky.social
& moi
26.09.2023 13:14
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Glad to officially join the party!
11.09.2023 19:41
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