Meet the Author: Adam Vines

Adam Vines has a passion for poetry and for fishing. You can hear him talk about both and more on Sunday, Nov. 4, at 2 p.m. in the auditorium of the main Huntsville-Madison County Public Library, 915 Monroe St. The Huntsville Literary Association is bringing him to town. The program is open to the public.

Vines caught the attention of Poetry magazine with lines born from a fishing trip. In “River Politics” he writes, “the campfire/ might as well be an empire/ we all/ watch dissolve/ (in the slough, a carp roll, a splash)/ into ash.”

It’s been a great year for the Birmingham poet: His first poetry collection, “The Coal Life,” was published by the University of Arkansas Press in the spring, and it was a finalist for the Miller Williams Prize. He appeared for the first time in the prestigious Poetry in the May 2012 issue. 

Vines is an assistant professor of English at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he specializes in modern and contemporary poetry and creative writing. His secondary interests are early American and early modern English religious and political rhetoric, early modern English drama, ecological literature and Southernism. He’s also editor of Birmingham Poetry Review.