Author Archives: Christopher

“The Mutual Building” in Rattle 52

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I’m jazzed and delighted to have just received my contributor copy of Rattle issue 52, which contains my poem “The Mutual Building,” inspired by the MONY building in Syracuse, sitting in a newly opened Tim Hortons downtown, and the arrival of a particularly absurd blizzard. This issue features a tribute to poetry by Angelenos, and there are young and shiny poems by such as Tiana Clark, Jenn Givhan, Robert Nazarene, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Ruth Madievsky, Charles Harper Webb, Cecilia Woloch, and many more. Thank you Editor Timothy Green!

“Staring Out a Window, Echoing the Actual Moon” on “Kurt Reads a Poem”

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Thank you to Kurt Milberger for a charming reading of “Staring Out a Window, Echoing the Actual Moon” on his “Kurt Reads a Poem” YouTube channel. That was a fun surprise to find. This collaborative prose poem, written with Dustin Nightingale, was recently published in DIAGRAM 16.2.

Click HERE to watch.

2 Collaborative Poems Published in DIAGRAM 16.2

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I’m thrilled to share the news that two of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale — “And Me with Only a Bottle Opener in My Pocket” and “Staring Out a Window, Echoing the Actual Moon” — have been published today in DIAGRAM 16.2. A big thank you to Ander Monson, EA Ramey, and the rest of the DIAGRAM crew!

Chick HERE to read them.

Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize Finalist

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It’s a pleasure to announce that my book The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy (Steel Toe Books, 2015) was selected as one of four finalists for the Eugene Paul Nassar Poetry Prize, a post-publication prize from Utica College. Thank you to judge Juliana Gray and to Gary Leising, the prize coordinator. And congratulations to Laura Donnelly, this year’s winner for her book Watershed.

You can purchase a copy from Amazon, Barnes & Noble Online, or direct from the publisher.

Book reviewers may email me directly to request a review copy.

Poems Accepted at Mid-American Review & Sycamore Review!

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A great big, dewy-eyed thank you to the editors of Mid-American Review for accepting my poems “One Light in a Field of Other Lights” and “At First It Buzzed Then Even the Buzzing Stopped” and to the editors of Sycamore Review for accepting my poem “It’s Something People In Love Do.” It’s sunny here in Syracuse and the birds in the driveway are singing.

“Beehive Soaked in Tea and How To Leave (Part One)” in Radar Poetry

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Hot-diggity what a week! My poem – “Beehive Soaked in Tea and How To Leave (Part One)” – has been published today in Radar. It’s another collaborative prose poem written with Dustin Nightingale. It includes an accompanying photograph by Williamson Brasfield and an audio file of us reading the poem, featuring a piano intro/outro composed and performed by my partner Sarah. Issue 10 includes fantastic new work by Daniel Eduardo Ruiz, Sara Biggs Chaney, Clare Paniccia, and others, and Dustin and I are delighted to be a part of it. Thank you Editors Rachel Marie Patterson and Dara-Lyn Shrager!

Read and listen to the poem HERE.