Author Archives: Christopher

Audio of my 10/23/2015 reading at the Downtown Writer’s Center available at Talk About Poetry

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I’m delighted to be able to share this audio recording of my poetry reading at The Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse on October 23, 2015. The recording was made by Bob Herz and is released as part of the Talk About Poetry podcast. This recording features poems from my first book, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy, as well as newer work. Thank you so much Bob and thanks again Phil Memmer for inviting me to read!
You can listen on Soundcloud HERE.
You can listen via iTunes HERE.

New South

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I just got my contributor copy of New South, which contains my poem “Wings Like Powerful Versions of Me.”

This is the Adventure Issue — including a choose your own adventure Jeeves and Wooster short story by Matthew David Brozik and Zac Cox’s wild cover art and portfolio of twisted Choose Your Own Adventure book covers.

Thanks so much Hank Backer and the other New South editors!

Poem accepted at Ploughshares

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Friends, I’m here today to share the news that a week ago the good folk at Ploughshares accepted my poem “The People Who Live Near Us Are Our Neighbors.” They wanted a second one too, but sadly I’d withdrawn that one earlier.

I’ve been living in Thrillsville ever since.

Thank you John Skoyles and the other Ploughshares readers and editors!

2 Poems Accepted at The Journal

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I’m jazzed to the nth degree to announce that The Journal has just accepted my two poems “Holding My Head in Both My Hands” and “We Were Doing Fine and Then We Disappeared Peacefully.”

I’ll keep this happy news in mind tomorrow as the snow drops begin to fall here in Syracuse. Sigh…

Thank you so much Mikko Harvey and the other Journal Editors!

“An Elephant Walks into a McDonalds” in Boulevard

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I’m elated to announce that my creative nonfiction essay “An Elephant Walks into a McDonalds” has just been published in the fall 2015 issue of Boulevard. This traditional essay is a memoir account of two prison arts outreach experiences I have had: the first in the 1990s at Washington DC’s Lorton Prison as an observer with Living Stage, and the second in the 2000s as a guest poet at a jail outside Lawrence, Kansas.

This is the second essay that I have had published and it’s a thrill to have it appear in Boulevard. Thank you to Jessica Rogen and the other Boulevard Editors!

Honorable Mention in the 2015 River Styx International Poetry Contest

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I’m all atingle to announce that my poem “We Come Here Every Day So You’ve Already Won” has been selected as an Honorable Mention in the 2015 River Styx International Poetry Contest, judged by Andrew Hudgins.

Congratulations to the winner Peter Kline, and the other poets who placed and received honorable mentions, including Allison Joseph, Brian Brodeur, Austin Allen, Zeina Hashem Beck, Heather Altfield.

Thanks to Richard Newman, judge Andrew Hudgins, and the other River Styx Editors!