E. J. McAdams
E.J. McAdams is a poet and artist, exploring language and mark-making in the urban environment using procedures and improvisation with found and natural materials. He has published four chapbooks: '4x4' from unarmed journal press, 'TRANSECTs' from Sona Books, ‘Out of Paradise,’ an e-chapbook from Delete Press, ‘Close-range Divinities’ from Shirt Pocket Press, and most recently, 'Middle Voice’ from Dusie Kollectiv. UDP published his 4x4 – “BOOM/BOOM/BOOM/BOOM” – in its Poste series. He had a solo exhibition, an installation called Trees Are Alphabets, at The Bronx Museum of the Arts, and a mail-art piece in a group show at Phoenix Art Museum. His poems have been published in The Paris Review, EOAGH, eccolinguistics, About Place Journal, unarmed journal, and others. Recently, a selection of poems were collected in the anthology Poetics for the More-than-Human World at Dispatches from the Poetry Wars. He was chosen by Laura Mullen and Angela Hume for 'Heir Apparent' in The Volta's Trash Issue which featured a visual TRANSECT. Another visual poetry project, ‘Wayfaring,’ was covered by author Robert Sullivan on A Public Space's blog. He curated the Social-Environmental-Aesthetics reading at EXIT ART from 2009-2012 and was a founding board member of the interdisciplinary Laboratory of Art Nature and Dance (iLAND).
An Action to End Gun Violence
lips on loaded
AR muzzle
blow as if
kudu shofar:
peace
registers
its blow-
less blow!
THE REMAINDER
1.
garbled through bathroom vents
2.
if she wants to bounce she can bounce
3.
engine sounds remind me I’m not one
4.
somehow don’t let that fact get in the way
5.
downed telephone pole as good a roost as any/great blue heron
6. DARWIN:
the birds idly singing mostly live on insects & seeds & thus are constantly destroying life
7.
little material crosses self-contained diffuse Gaia border except (alleluia!!!) space dust
8. MINETTA LANE
cement meanders where stream once was
9.
son’s rainbow starship arcing toward a sun
10.
almost but not quite yet open
11.
sundog
12.
whatever we do/don’t do neutral sky there (always) out window
13.
yellow daffodils in ice
14.
with cold sleeping sparrows in the only
15.
sun//beams/gleam
16.
say what you want bad about pigeons but they can fly
17.
love has no nor never respects bounds
18.
faux corporate waterfalls
19.
sparrows so familiar in their crummy hunger, alien in all else
20.
potted evergreens as security bollards
21.
chasing each other’s other
22. HERO TIME
beginning middle end (repeat)
23.
keep us animal enough to survive
24. RIDDLE:
what’s this that is always thus and now no more than the least among all leastmost things
25.
bills pile up like snow
26.
crow missing one primary one tail feather limping into low cloud cover
27.