Adrian Blevins is the author of three collections of poetry: Appalachians Run Amok (Two Sylvias Press, 2018), winner of the 2016 Wilder Prize; Live from the Homesick Jamboree (Wesleyan University Press, 2009); and The Brass Girl Brouhaha (Ausable Press, 2003), winner of the 2004 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Blevins is also the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Writers’ Foundation Award for […]
The dead soldier boy’s photo makes me think oh his poor mother as though he’d never been an actual person with fingers, etc., but the mother’s right eye shredded by hundreds of pieces of flying pink glass or the mother’s malignant lung reduced to cinders in the infirmary furnace. It’s wrong to think […]
The coal-hauling train car said Hi Loretta, Jesus Saves in white-chalk, ardent letters. So do the bathroom stalls and bumper stickers riding their diesels up Highway 81 and the letters Nate’s mom sends in the blue envelopes she adores because they are sacred—they are great—they are from The Christ Store of Baltimore. I used […]
From the beginning it was the money, how we would not or could not make it. It was never avarice, I resent the implication, it was how much like starlings children are with those same raggedy screechings and us such languid nest makers: him with his camera pointed up and me in the chair with […]
On April 30, 2005, From the Fishouse celebrated its official launch at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine with the unveiling of our new website and poetry readings by Adrian Blevins, Tyehimba Jess, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, and Patrick Rosal. You can listen to each poet’s full reading (approximately 10 minutes each) and/or you can listen to the […]
Adrian Blevins reading Life and Art, recorded live at the Fishouse launch party, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 30, 2005
Adrian Blevins reading November Neurosis, recorded live at the Fishouse launch party, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 30, 2005
Adrian Blevins reading Waking Up, recorded live at the Fishouse launch party, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, April 30, 2005