All the Good Hiding Places

A native New Orleanian,  Ralph Adamo has published seven collections of poetry, most recently Ever: Poems 2000-2014, and the new and selected volume, Waterblind (2002). He received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in Creative Writing in 2003, a Louisiana Division of the Arts Individual Artist Grant in 1998, and the first Marble Faun award in poetry from the Faulkner Society in 1997.
In addition to work in general anthologies (Contemporary American Poetry, and The Made Thing, among others), his poems have been featured in two recent specialized anthologies, one about rivers and the other about the moon. Recent reviews of his work can be found in The Hollins Critic (April 2015), Rain Taxi (August 2015) and in Today's Book of Poetry.  

About Ralph Adamo
Mr. Adamo has lived in New Orleans all his life and began teaching English at Xavier in Fall 2007, and has edited Xavier Review since Spring 2011. His six collections of poetry were all published by small presses, most recently the selected volume Waterblind from Portals Press in 2002; he won an National Endowment for the Arts award for poetry in 2003. Former editor New Orleans Review in the ‘90s and Barataria Review in the ‘70s), he has taught at most area universities and continues to work as a journalist. In the months following Katrina, he was awarded a Katrina Media Grant by the Open Society Institute to pursue the story of the radical changes being wrought in local public education. (Some of those stories can be found on the OSI website.)

He has had seven books of his own poetry published to date including his recent: Ever: Poems 2000-2014

In addition to the NEA, he has won poetry awards from the Louisiana Endowment for the Arts, and from the Faulkner Society. The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities funded his summer institute on Twentieth Century Poetry and Arts Movements in 1998.

He was among the editors of a posthumous volume of poetry by Everette Maddox, American Waste (1994), and was editor of Maddox’s selected poems, I Hope It’s Not Over and Goodbye , in 2009.