Adrian Matejka
Adrian Matejka‘s first collections of poems, The Devil’s 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. His other awards include two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and a fellowship from Cave Canem. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2010, Crab Orchard Review, Ploughshares, and Prairie Schooner among other journals and anthologies. He teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where he serves as Poetry Editor for Sou’wester and co-directs the River Styx at Duff’s Reading Series.
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