The Willies
2020 Foreword Reviews INDIES Awards – Gold Medal Winner (Poetry)
2021 Midwest Publisher’s Association – Gold Medal Winner (Poetry Debut)
Adam Falkner is a poet with a spine of steel. We need his prophetic voice in these bleak times. –—- Dr. Cornel West
Falkner has heard what hums at the marrow of men who deceive themselves in order to survive America. —— Saeed Jones
This is truth that changes the air it reaches. This is poetry that, damn it, you can’t shake. —— Patricia Smith
Adoption
Winnder of the 2018 Diode Editions Chapbook Award
This book sings! —— sam sax
…intimate and profound. —— Andrew Solomon
Poem after poem, line after line, Falkner writes a ladder into—and out of—the intricacies of desire, family, silence, inheritance. Each line the measure of effortful reckoning turned into ink and sound. Into a tenderness examined and worked for, he considers the ways we devastate one another daily but also the ways we might be opened into love.
—- Aracelis Girmay