2014 Poetry Book Prize Winner: Adam Tavel
Adam Tavel was the winner of Permafrost's 2014 Poetry Book Prize for his poetry collection entitled Plash & Levitation, which was published by . The recipient of the 2010 Robert Frost Award from the Robert Frost Foundation, Tavel is also the author of The Fawn Abyss (, forthcoming 2016) and the chapbook Red Flag Up (, 2013). Tavel is currently a professor of English at Wor-Wic Community College on Maryland’s Eastern Shore.
Tavel’s poems have been anthologized in (Salmon Poetry, 2010), A Face to Meet the Faces: An Anthology of Contemporary Persona Poetry (University of Akron Press, 2012), (The Poets’ Printery, 2013), Manifest West: Even Cowboys Carry Cell Phones (Western Press Books/University Press of Colorado, 2013), and The Waiting Room Reader, Volume II: Words to Keep You Company (CavanKerry Press, 2013).
From 2005-2014, Tavel served as poetry editor for the journal Conte. In April 2013, he was the featured guest editor for a of Connotation Press: An Online Artifact. He recently joined the staff of as reviews editor.