On Friday, October 23, 2015 at 7 PM I’ll be reading poetry along with Jeffrey Harrison at the Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse, NY as part of their Fall 2015 Visiting Author Reading Series. The event is free and open to the public. Please come!
Author Archives: Christopher
Souvenir
Three prose poems from a series I’ve been writing in collaboration with the poet Dustin Nightingale have been published in the new issue of The Downtown Writer’s Center August Occasion Writing Retreat
A huge, massive, thundering thank you to Phil Memmer, Georgia Popoff, and to my students and my fellow instructors at The Downtown Writer’s Center August Occasion Writing Retreat last month at the Harding Farm in Clinton, NY. That was an amazing and inspiring day.
This was also the first time I read aloud from my new book, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy. An experience I won’t ever forget.
Semifinalist for the 2015 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize
I’m delighted to announce that my poem “You Can Keep Your Employee of the Month Award” has been accepted for publication in Crab Creek Review.
It was chosen as one of the semifinalists for the 2015 Crab Creek Review Poetry Prize. Congrats to the winner, Laura Read, and the other poems that placed.
Thank you Martha Silano and the other Crab Creek Review editors!
Diagram
Two of the collaborative prose poems that I have been writing with the poet Dustin Nightingale have just been accepted at DIAGRAM. A sweet, sweet wonderfulness. Thanks EA Ramey and the other DIAGRAM editors!
Finalist for 2015 Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry
My poetry was a finalist for this year’s Arts & Letters Rumi Prize in Poetry.
Thanks Arts & Letters editors and congrats to the winners and other finalists!
Zone 3
ZONE 3 has accepted “The Construction of a Massive Concrete Dam” — one of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with the poet Dustin Nightingale. Thanks Andrea Spofford and the other Zone 3 editors!
Witness Magazine
My poem “Nerve Endings Like Strawberry Runners” has just been published today in the Summer 2015 online issue of Witness Magazine. Thank you Olivia Clare, Joseph Langdon, and the other Witness editors!
Read the poem HERE.
2 Collaborations in Jam Tarts 1.5
Jam Tarts #1.5 has just been published and it contains two of the collaborative prose poems I’ve been writing with the poet Dustin Nightingale: “There, There” and “Eventually I Grew Up.” Check out the poems, and the rest of the issue,HERE!
Poem published in Booth
My poem “Go On Take Another Little Piece of My Heart,” which was shortlisted for the 2015 Booth Poetry Prize, has been published online today at Booth. Thank you Robert Stapleton, Chris Speckman and the other BoothEditors!
You can read the poem HERE.