Adam K Bechtold
Poet, editor, and seafarer
Adam K Bechtold is a Cuban-American poet residing in Central Virginia; a seafarer on merchants ships; and the Managing Editor at samfiftyfour_literary. His work has recently been featured in Prosetrics, Fourth River, Rill & Grove, and On The High Literary Magazine. He was selected as a finalist for the 2025 Arts & Letters Rumi Prize for Poetry and has been nominated for Best New Poets.
Selected work
Gathering Moss in an Oakland Bar
Soon
Prosetrics The Literary Magazine
Poetry
After Barbenheimer
The Fourth River, 2024
Poetry
The Slow Passage & Ode to the Memory of a Suicide Note
rill & grove, 2023
Poetry
Black Cat Reacts to a Sneeze
On-the-High Literary Journal, 2023
Poetry