Adam Fell is the author of the poetry collections, Catastrophizer, winner of the 2022 Sixth Finch Poetry Chapbook Contest, Dear Corporation (Forklift Books 2019) and I Am Not A Pioneer. He has had more than thirty poems published in various journals and magazines over the years, and his short fiction has recently appeared in Marrow, Coffin Bell, and Last Girls Club. He is a Professor of English at Edgewood College in Madison, WI, where he is co-founder and curator of the Monsters of Poetry Reading Series.
The children load me into the trailer. Padlock the tailgate. Take the dirt road past the sanitation plant, the tannery, the strip club, the gun store. I’ve known nowhere but the farm, the pen, the milk bottles & dust & feed. The children laugh in the cab, turn their muffled music up. I put my […]