Author Archives: Christopher

Cellpoems

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My very short poem “Me in My Place” is now up at Cellpoems. You can read it online and also subscribe to receive their future poems as text messages on ye olde cellular telephones. They have a place to subscribe on the site or “If you’d like to sign up for this and all future poems, txt JOIN to 646-510-1488.” Thanks Cellpoems!

Sites Sites Sites

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I recently received a listing in Poets & Writers Directory of Writers.

 

Also at the New York State Literary Website.

 

 

Also I’ve created my own tumblr site in order to share poetry, literature, and art links which others might find of interest. This News page is for my own poetry; my tumblr blog is for other people’s work. In all likelihood I’ll post there pretty regularly. It’s new to me and I’m still finding my way. The link can be found at the upper right of this News page, next to the RSS button.

 

Forklift, Ohio

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I recently received my contributor’s copy of the new issue of Forklift, Ohio in the mail. It contains my poems “All Purpose Me” and “The Wrestling Coach Taught Us Health” along with the usual gathering of amazing writers, including new poems by the great Mary Ruefle. The generous and wonderful people behind this journal also included a carpenter’s pencil, corkscrew, and copies of the Forklift, Ink chapbooks Touch Monkey by Stuart Dischell (which I sat down to sample and couldn’t stop myself reading all the way through) and The Dept. of Ephebic Dreamery by Darcie Dennigan. I’ve never before had the opportunity to uncork a journal in order to read it (yes, that’s an actual cork sticking through the magazine in the upper right corner, avec wine stained tip). Thanks Matt Hart and the Forklift, Ohio vintners!

Cellpoems

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Cellpoems, the “poetry journal distributed via text message” has just accepted my very short poem “Me in My Place.” This wonderful journal has been publishing one poem a week since 2009. You can subscribe to recieve the text messages here, or visit the main page to read them online. Their archive includes poems by Charles Simic, Matthew Rohrer, Erika Meitner,  and Sherman Alexie to name but a few! The New Yorker had an article about the journal last year which you can read here.

Crate Magazine & The Reprint

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Coinciding with the return of warm weather here in Syracuse, I recently learned that University of California-Riverside’s Crate Magazine will publish my poem “(They Were) There All the Time” in their forthcoming issue.

I’m also happy to report that two of my poems have been accepted to appear in The Reprint. This online journal only publishes work which has already appeared in print and is unavailable online, and they’ll be bringing to the digital world poems of mine which originally appeared in Permafrost and The Cincinnati Review. You can check out their five issues so far — each illustrated with works by a single artist, all of whom are wonderful! — including stories by Roxane Gay, Amelia Gray, Barry Yourgrau, and Kim Chinquee (whose piece is introduced with an amazing image by Pamela Wilson).

I’ve won a Blurby!

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The good folk over at The California Journal of Poetics have given me a Blurby Award for a blurb of mine which appeared on the back of Jim Daniels’ Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry. Specifically, I won BEST ORIGAMI METAPHOR.

Some other examples of Blurby Awards go for BEST HOMERIC SIMILE, BEST ALICE IN WONDERLAND METAPHOR, BEST REFERENCE TO KAFKA, and Amy Gerstler’s MOST ZEN IN SPITE OF IMPENDING OBLITERATION. You can read the whole award list here.

Thank you CalJoPo!