Yay! Some welcome good news. My poem “Blood in the Air” has just been accepted by The Greensboro Review. It’s a love poem, and it has chocolate cake and geese in it. Thank you Greensboro Review!
Author Archives: Christopher
Thank you Martha’s Vineyard!
Thank you so much to all the great folks who came out to my class on the hermit crab essay and my poetry reading yesterday at the Oak Bluffs Library on Martha’s Vineyard! It was such a treat! Thank you to Carolina and Marco for hosting me at the library. Thank you to Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing for bringing me to the island as part of the year-long visiting writers series!
I’m teaching & reading in Martha’s Vineyard Feb 29, 2020!
I’m delighted to announce that I’m returning to Martha’s Vineyard at the end of this month! I’ll be teaching a 2-hour writing class on the Hermit Crab Essay and then giving a poetry reading at the Oak Bluffs Public Library on Feb 29. It’s all completely free and open to the public. Dag! This event is part of the Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing’s Year-Round Writers Series. I did it last year, too, and we had a great time. If you’re in the area, please come on by!
More info HERE.
Three Poems Accepted at Smartish Pace!
I’m delighted to share the news that Smartish Pace just accepted my three poems “The Sky Always Blue Above the Clouds Useless To Us,” “Please Let There Be an Ice Storm This Afternoon” and “Our Breaths Are Weather.” Thank you Stephen Reichert and the rest of the Smartish Pace crew!
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize!
I’m thrilled to have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by a member (or members) of the Board of Contributing Editors! Thank you!!! It was such an honor to have my poem “It’s Something People in Love Do” appear in the 2018 edition.
Reading in Philly Friday April 17, 2020 at the Popular Culture Association National Conference!
I’m going to Philadelphia in April to read poems from my forthcoming book If We Had a Lemon We’d Throw It and Call That the Sun (winner of the 2019 Antivenom Poetry Award from Elixir Press). I’m reading Friday April 17, 2020 at 6:30 as part of the Popular Culture Association 2020 National Conference. Swing on by if you’re in the area. Plus the conference is just crazy packed with great stuff, including featured speakers Terry Gross and Kevin Willmott!
3 Poems Accepted at Sou’wester!
Delighted to share the news that Sou’wester has accepted my three poems “Until the World Cracks in Half,” “Last Bites Mostly Your Own Saliva,” and “Say that Again.” Thank you Poetry Editor Joshua Kryah and the rest of the Sou’wester crew!
“On Our Mountain Made of Crushed Mountains” Accepted at Zone 3!
Thrilled to share the news that my poem “On Our Mountain Made of Crushed Mountains” has been accepted for publication at Zone 3 Literary Journal! Melon balls, woolly mammoths, UFOs, honey bees, tungsten light bulbs, and Julius Caesar all in 38 lines. Thank you to Andrea Spofford and all at Zone 3 Press.
Best Microfiction 2020 Anthology!
Wow wow wow! My microfiction story “The Horses Are Ready and They Need to Go” has been chosen to be included in Best Microfiction 2020 Anthology! What a delightful piece of news especially as fiction is my third genre, after poetry and creative nonfiction. Golly. Thank you so much to Lisa Ampleman, Jess Jelsma Masterton, at The Cincinnati Review for first publishing the story, to Best Microfiction Series Editors Meg Pokrass and Gary Fincke, and to this year’s judge Michael Martone for selecting it for the anthology!
You can read the story (and hear me read it to you) at The Cincinnati Review HERE!
3 Collaborative Prose Poems Accepted at Denver Quarterly!
Delighted to share the news that the Denver Quarterly just accepted three poems: “Ants Gather at the Puncture,” “Government Wine,” and “Itty Bitty City” — all collaborative prose poems from the series I’ve been writing with Dustin Nightingale.