Today's poem of the day is "End of Side A" http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/244210 by TMR Language Lessons contributor Adrian Matejka.

Adrian Matejka was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and grew up in California and Indiana. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the MFA program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His first collection of poems, The Devil’s Garden, won the 2002 New York/New England Award from Alice James Books. His second collection, Mixology, was a winner of the 2008 National Poetry Series and was published by Penguin Books in 2009. Mixology was subsequently nominated for an NAACP Image Award. His newest book, The Big Smoke, was published by Penguin in May 2013 and was a finalist for the 2013 National Book Award and the 2014 Pulitzer Prize. He is the recipient of two Illinois Arts Council Literary Awards and fellowships from Cave Canem and the Lannan Foundation. His work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The Best American Poetry 2010, Gulf Coast, Ploughshares, Poetry, and Prairie Schooner among other journals and anthologies. He teaches creative writing at Indiana University in Bloomington.

An interview with Adrian: http://thefanzine.com/an-interview-with-adrian-matejka/