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Matt Bell is the author of How They Were Found, forthcoming from Keyhole Press in October 2010, as well as three chapbooks, Wolf Parts (Keyhole Press), The Collectors (Caketrain Press), and How the Broken Lead the Blind (Willows Wept Press). His fiction has appeared in Conjunctions, Hayden's Ferry Review, Willow Springs, Unsaid, and American Short Fiction, and has been selected for inclusion in anthologies such as Best American Mystery Stories 2010 and Best American Fantasy 2. His book reviews and critical essays have appeared in The Los Angeles Times, American Book Review, and The Quarterly Conversation.

He is also the editor of The Collagist and of Dzanc's Best of the Web anthology series.

He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his wife Jessica, and can be reached via e-mail at mdbell79@gmail.com.

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Wednesday
Oct282009

ADAM ROBISON AND OTHER POEMS by Adam Robinson

I kept calling my one brother adopted
I said, you're adopted, adopted
I ran from the laundry machine to the bathroom
Yelling Adopted! and You have a hole in your heart!
Because he did. People smarter than me call it a murmur
a ventricular septale defect
I yelled, You, Adopted, have a hole in your heart
through the locked bathroom door
and he kicked that shit off its hinges

--from "Some Men in My Family" by Adam Robinson

Adam Robinson's first full-length collection, Adam Robison and Other Poems, is now available for pre-order from Narrow House. Adam's a spectacular writer, the editor of Publishing Genius, and an all-around great member of the literary community. I can't recommend buying this book enough, but if you need further convincing, check out the rest of the poem I've excerpted above. It's one of my favorite things Keyhole has published.

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