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February 11, 2011
New Poems at West Wind Review
I have a couple of poems in the awesome new issue of West Wind Review. Check it out here
featuring Chris Alexander, Shane Allison, Brian Ang, Joe Atkins, derek beaulieu, Steve Benson, Gregory Betts, Mark Boccard, Sommer Browning, Edmond Caldwell, Dereck Clemons, Bryan Coffelt, Shanna Compton, Alan Davies, Luke Degnan, Tiffany Denman, Buck Downs, Patrick Durgin, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Micah Freeman, Kristen Gallagher, Drew Gardner, Angela Genusa, Nada Gordon, Plynn Gutman, Nadxieli Nieto Hall, Mike Hauser, Emily Hockaday, Janis Butler Holm, Paul Hoover, Uyen Hua, Jake Kennedy, Rodney Koeneke, David Lau, Emily Liebowitz, Jonathan Lohr, Travis Macdonald, Alana Madison, Adam J Maynard, Rebecca Mertz, Sharon Mesmer, Monica Mody, Adam Moorad, Rosiere Moseley, Christian Nagler, Chris Nealon, Jessea Perry, Adam Roberts, Steve Roggenbuck, Andrew Sage, Estee Schwartz, James Sherry, Josh Stanley, Erin Steinke, Christina Strong, Cole Tucker-Walton, Joshua Ware, Jeanine Webb, Elisabeth Workman, Timothy Yu, and Carolyn Zaikowski.
Editor: Sarah Cunningham
Faculty Editor: K. Silem Mohammad
January 29, 2011
My Name is Mud Books Launch Party
Modern Art Oxford will be hosting a Book launch and party for Issue One of My Name is Mud and Green, poems by Adam J Maynard. 7-9pm Saturday 5th February 2011
Featuring readings from:
Ani Smith
Cassandra Troyan
Adam J Maynard
Also there will be films of various authors from the issue reading their stuff and stuff
and a dance to the music of Sun City Girls
And Mbira music from Zimbabwe
and booze and other shit
plus Dj Simon Wright (Scratch Nights) playing Ariel Pink, freak folk whatever etc...
plus a special guest appearance from Yoda
and you'll be able to buy the book, plus it's free to get in!!
be there if yr in Oxford
more info
order the books
Authors in issue one:
Kendra Grant Malone, Daniel Bailey , Adam J Maynard, Maurice Burford
TR Deeks, Sabra Embury, Brandon Scott Gorell, Prathna Lor, Todd Colby
Paige Taggart, Joseph Goosey, K. Silem Mohammad,Cassandra Troyan
Hickory Assbags
Thanxxx!!!
December 21, 2010
Ani Smith interviewed me for We Who Are About To Die
Writer Ani Smith very kindly interviewed me for the lit site We Who Are About To Die read the results: here
December 4, 2010
Now available to order at My Name is Mud!
My Name is Mud Short Fiction / Poetry Issue 0ne
92pp Text with b/w images, perfect bound featuring:
Kendra Grant Malone, Daniel Bailey , Adam J Maynard, Maurice Burford
TR Deeks, Sabra Embury, Brandon Scott Gorell, Prathna Lor, Todd Colby
Paige Taggart, Joseph Goosey, K. Silem Mohammad,Cassandra Troyan
Hickory Assbags
$15.95 (includes shipping and handling)
Green, a book of poems by Adam J Maynard
81pp Text with b/w images, perfect bound
In his first collection of poetry Green, Adam J Maynard is the Grand Marshall of a beautiful parade, swinging the baton as he takes us through a kaleidoscopic realm that is our cultural memory, our obsessions, our emotional uncertainties, our love. This book is dripping with poems that are as lucid as they are baffling. I couldn't help but follow Maynard through the streets of Green, beating my drum in tune to the band, wondering where I was, excited about where I would go.
- Daniel Bailey, author of East Central Indiana and The Drunk Sonnets
I've always been jealous of synesthetes, but after reading Green, I now know I should never have been jealous of them. From now on I will respond to the synesthetes with great fear and I will walk lightly around them, so as not to disturb their thoughtfulness. Adam J Maynard's new collection of photos and poem's are sure to infect the parts of your brain that were meant to work independently and completely reorder your sense of the world.
- Kendra Grant Malone, author of Everything Is Quiet
Adam J Maynard's poems are packed with the particulars of everyday life; brimming with a playfully sinister joy in the new now. Full of flip-flops, Slayer t-shirts, and Kung Fu, his poems navigate the modern landscape with a refined poetic sensibility that is equal parts fearless and sophisticated as it is hilarious and surreal. The publication of Green is a real cause for celebration.
- Todd Colby, author of Riot In The Charm Factory and Tremble and Shine
Adam J Maynard's Green is really a form of the blues. These absurdist little anti-ballads appear on the surface to be awkwardly tuneless and banal, but they catch you with plaintive hooks that almost don't register until they've punctured your lip. Maynard's cadences, for all their deliberate clunkiness, are soulful and melancholy in a way that escapes maudlin cliche or forced sincerity. Earworms that at first seem blank and silly burrow their way into your "sleepy cartoon mind" and lay eggs there that hatch into "greenish ghosts" which "float up through the floor / And get free, out in the light, in the wind." This book is tight.
- K Silem Mohammad, author of Deer Head Nation, Breathalyzer and The Front
$15.95 (includes shipping and handling)
order
October 23, 2010
September 22, 2010
August 17, 2010
A coupla things worth reading
August 16, 2010
Ladybird (ii)
A massive ladybird on the moon
Talks on a pink mobile phone
'I have seen the fantastic, lonely eyes
Of the salmon in the rapids' it says
'There is something about lettuce laying season
That I really love'
Be careful though, not to get
Yourself spread everywhere
Remember the Sharks that rattle in the rain.
Be careful, or you could end up
Like a magazine rack without any magazines
A gorilla stands outside the window
Pointing a bazooka at me
But I'm too busy talking
With the massive ladybird on the moon
Looking at my reflection in the window
It rains a lot in here
I live in a cardboard box
With a massive ladybird
It uses a horrifically expensive
Limited edition Chanel phone
It keeps screaming and crying all the time
Saying that it knows all about the gloom
I'm supposedly made out of
May 16, 2010
April 17, 2010
West Wind Review and Kill Author
I have four poems in the new West Wind Review. It also has these great people within its pages:Shane Allison, Brian Ang, Nathan Austin, Elizabeth Bachinsky, Daniel Bailey, Dave Barrett, Franklin Bruno, Marie Buck, Clint Burnham, Dereck Clemons, Jordan Davis, Nick Demske, Tiffany Denman, Brittany Dennison, Christopher DeWeese, Andrew Dieck, Brandon Downing, Cathy Eisenhower, Laura Elrick, Phil Estes, Michael Farrell, Angela Genusa, Judith Goldman, Jack Granath, Rob Halpern, Morgan Harlow, Uyen Hua, Katryn Hurtado, Genevieve Kaplan, Nicholas Karavatos, William Knight, D Sprung Kurilecz, Reb Livingston, Adrian C. Louis, Donato Mancini, Adam J Maynard, Philip Metres, Carol Mirakove, Christopher Mulrooney, Sara Mumolo, Sawako Nakayasu, Lance Newman, Amy Ng, Douglas Piccinnini, Ernesto Priego, Jessy Randall, Nicholas Michael Ravnikar, G. David Schwartz, Marcus Slease, Dawn Sueoka, Andrew Terhune, Wendy Trevino, Anna Vitale, James Wagner, and Grzegorz Wróblewski (trans. Adam Zdrodowski)Editor: Greta Mikkelsen Faculty Editor: K. Silem Mohammad 229 pp.Get it here I also have four poems up at the excelent new 'Donald Barthelme' issue of Kill Author which you can read here Sorry responses to My Name is Mud have been slow. I have been really f*****king bizzy etc..Green by Adam J Maynard and isssue one of My Name is Mud are currently in pipeline I'm watching two bees drinking a bottle of champagne and the sun is dribbling thru the windows. Thanxxx
