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Adrian Matejka

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Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany but grew up in California and Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His first collection of poems, The Devils Garden, won the 2002 Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books. His second collection, Mixology, was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin Books in 2009. Mixology was subsequently nominated for an NAACP Image Award. He is a Cave Canem fellow and is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2010, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and Prairie Schooner among other journals and anthologies. He teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where he serves as Poetry Editor for Souwester."

Adrian Matejka

4/5 ( ratings)

Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany but grew up in California and Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His first collection of poems, The Devils Garden, won the 2002 Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books. His second collection, Mixology, was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin Books in 2009. Mixology was subsequently nominated for an NAACP Image Award. He is a Cave Canem fellow and is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2010, Crab Orchard Review, Gulf Coast, Pleiades, and Prairie Schooner among other journals and anthologies. He teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where he serves as Poetry Editor for Souwester."

Books from Adrian Matejka

Map to the Stars

Mixology

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Somebody Else Sold the World

Bodies Built for Game: The Prairie Schooner Anthology of Contemporary Sports Writing

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Read America(s): An Anthology

4.7/5 ( ratings)

Boulevard Nos. 92 & 93

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Contenders: Excerpts from the 2013 National Book Award Poetry Finalists

Somebody Else Sold the World (Penguin Poets)

Boulevard Nos. 95 & 96

The Big Smoke

The Devil's Garden

Seriously Funny: Poems about Love, Death, Religion, Art, Politics, Sex, and Everything Else

The Devil's Garden

Poetry Foundation Magazine, Volume 222, Issue #4, July/August 2023

Poetry Foundation Magazine, Volume 222, Issue #5, September 2023

Poetry Foundation Magazine, Volume 223, Issue #1, October 2023

Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century

Tracking/Teaching: On Documentary Poetics

Last On His Feet: Jack Johnson and the Battle of the Century