New Poems at West Wind Review

I have a couple of poems in the awesome new issue of West Wind Review. Check it out here

featuring Chris Alexander, Shane Allison, Brian Ang, Joe Atkins, derek beaulieu, Steve Benson, Gregory Betts, Mark Boccard, Sommer Browning, Edmond Caldwell, Dereck Clemons, Bryan Coffelt, Shanna Compton, Alan Davies, Luke Degnan, Tiffany Denman, Buck Downs, Patrick Durgin, kevin mcpherson eckhoff, Micah Freeman, Kristen Gallagher, Drew Gardner, Angela Genusa, Nada Gordon, Plynn Gutman, Nadxieli Nieto Hall, Mike Hauser, Emily Hockaday, Janis Butler Holm, Paul Hoover, Uyen Hua, Jake Kennedy, Rodney Koeneke, David Lau, Emily Liebowitz, Jonathan Lohr, Travis Macdonald, Alana Madison, Adam J Maynard, Rebecca Mertz, Sharon Mesmer, Monica Mody, Adam Moorad, Rosiere Moseley, Christian Nagler, Chris Nealon, Jessea Perry, Adam Roberts, Steve Roggenbuck, Andrew Sage, Estee Schwartz, James Sherry, Josh Stanley, Erin Steinke, Christina Strong, Cole Tucker-Walton, Joshua Ware, Jeanine Webb, Elisabeth Workman, Timothy Yu, and Carolyn Zaikowski.

Editor: Sarah Cunningham
Faculty Editor: K. Silem Mohammad

My Name is Mud Books Launch Party

Modern Art Oxford will be hosting a Book launch and party for Issue One of My Name is Mud and Green, poems by Adam J Maynard. 7-9pm Saturday 5th February 2011

Featuring readings from:

Ani Smith
Cassandra Troyan
Adam J Maynard


Also there will be films of various authors from the issue reading their stuff and stuff

and a dance to the music of Sun City Girls

And Mbira music from Zimbabwe

and booze and other shit

plus Dj Simon Wright (Scratch Nights) playing Ariel Pink, freak folk whatever etc...

plus a special guest appearance from Yoda

and you'll be able to buy the book, plus it's free to get in!!

be there if yr in Oxford

more info here

order the books here


Authors in issue one:

Kendra Grant Malone, Daniel Bailey , Adam J Maynard, Maurice Burford
TR Deeks, Sabra Embury, Brandon Scott Gorell, Prathna Lor, Todd Colby
Paige Taggart, Joseph Goosey, K. Silem Mohammad,Cassandra Troyan
Hickory Assbags

Thanxxx!!!

Ani Smith interviewed me for We Who Are About To Die

Writer Ani Smith very kindly interviewed me for the lit site We Who Are About To Die

read the results: here

Now available to order at My Name is Mud!

My Name is Mud Short Fiction / Poetry Issue 0ne

92pp Text with b/w images, perfect bound featuring:


Kendra Grant Malone, Daniel Bailey , Adam J Maynard, Maurice Burford
TR Deeks, Sabra Embury, Brandon Scott Gorell, Prathna Lor, Todd Colby
Paige Taggart, Joseph Goosey, K. Silem Mohammad,Cassandra Troyan
Hickory Assbags


$15.95 (includes shipping and handling)



Green, a book of poems by Adam J Maynard

81pp Text with b/w images, perfect bound


In his first collection of poetry Green, Adam J Maynard is the Grand Marshall of a beautiful parade, swinging the baton as he takes us through a kaleidoscopic realm that is our cultural memory, our obsessions, our emotional uncertainties, our love. This book is dripping with poems that are as lucid as they are baffling. I couldn't help but follow Maynard through the streets of Green, beating my drum in tune to the band, wondering where I was, excited about where I would go.

- Daniel Bailey, author of East Central Indiana and The Drunk Sonnets


I've always been jealous of synesthetes, but after reading Green, I now know I should never have been jealous of them. From now on I will respond to the synesthetes with great fear and I will walk lightly around them, so as not to disturb their thoughtfulness. Adam J Maynard's new collection of photos and poem's are sure to infect the parts of your brain that were meant to work independently and completely reorder your sense of the world.

- Kendra Grant Malone, author of Everything Is Quiet


Adam J Maynard's poems are packed with the particulars of everyday life; brimming with a playfully sinister joy in the new now. Full of flip-flops, Slayer t-shirts, and Kung Fu, his poems navigate the modern landscape with a refined poetic sensibility that is equal parts fearless and sophisticated as it is hilarious and surreal. The publication of Green is a real cause for celebration.

- Todd Colby, author of Riot In The Charm Factory and Tremble and Shine


Adam J Maynard's Green is really a form of the blues. These absurdist little anti-ballads appear on the surface to be awkwardly tuneless and banal, but they catch you with plaintive hooks that almost don't register until they've punctured your lip. Maynard's cadences, for all their deliberate clunkiness, are soulful and melancholy in a way that escapes maudlin cliche or forced sincerity. Earworms that at first seem blank and silly burrow their way into your "sleepy cartoon mind" and lay eggs there that hatch into "greenish ghosts" which "float up through the floor / And get free, out in the light, in the wind." This book is tight.

- K Silem Mohammad, author of Deer Head Nation, Breathalyzer and The Front



$15.95 (includes shipping and handling)



order it here

Coming soon from My Name is Mud Books

Hogwarts (ii)