Author Archives: Christopher

Beecher’s

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Beecher’s magazine has accepted for their next issue a collaborative prose poem from a series written with my friend the poet Dustin Nightingale. This is the second of our collaborations to find a home. The first was published in the recent Yemassee 19.2.

Beecher’s magazine is “published annually in Lawrence, Kansas and run by the students of the graduate program in creative writing at the University of Kansas.” It warms my December in Syracuse heart to have a poem in this gorgeous new journal published by my former school KU in the town I lived in for ten years. Thanks Beecher’s!

LOG!

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My poem “The Tree I Just Leaned Against Is the Exact Age As Me” has been published in NAP’s new issue of “Nature Poems About Nature” called LOG. You can view the free pdf of the issue HERE. There’s a ton of great work in this issue, and I’m proud to be a part of it. Thanks Chad!

Upcoming Poetry Reading Announced for Feb 9, 2013

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I am pleased to announce that I will be reading my poetry February 9, 2013 as part of the Deep Fried Reading Series in Rochester, NY. The series is curated by Albert Abonado, editor of The Bakery. My fellow readers that evening will be Donora Hillard, and Tony Leuzzi.

You can find further information about the reading via the Readings link at the top of this page.

The Los Angeles Review Vol 12.

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Today I received my contributor copy of The Los Angeles Review, Volume 12, and it’s a wonderful collection. In addition to my poem, “And We Make It Home Eventually,” this issue contains poems by Nancy Carol Moody, Gregory Sherl, David Wagoner, fiction by Ron Carlson and Robert Lopez, an essay/review by Mitchell L.H. Douglas, and lots more excellent poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Thank you Tanya Chernov, Kelly Davio, and The Los Angeles Review!

SCUD

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My prose poems “And Not Having the Least Bit of Luck” and “New Year’s Resolution TBA” have just been published online at SCUD. You can read the poems here.

Thank you Brad Liening and SCUD!

The Bakery

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My poems “My Own Nature” and “Me and What Army” have just been published by The Bakery, with audio of me reading in my backyard complete with crows cawing and dogs barking.

If you haven’t yet visited The Bakery, you’ll want to. They publish a piping hot poem every day of the week, by the likes of Matthew Cooperman, Joshua Young, Nick Sturm, Rob MacDonald, K.M.A. Sullivan & Nate Pritts, plus Monthly Specials such as October’s with Timothy Liu. The Bakery is edited by Albert Abonado. Thanks Al!

The 22 Magazine Blog

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My poem “I Keep a List of What I Must” has just been published on The 22 Magazine Blog.

You can read the poem here.

This poem is from the manuscript-in-process of my untitled second book of poetry. (My first, The Maintenance of the Shimmy-Shammy, hasn’t found a publisher yet, but I’m pressing on regardless.) It’s built around poems begun during my five month stint living with my girlfriend and our black cat in an apartment over Main Street in a very small Ohio village (pop. 800) last year, moving in the day before Fall Festival and out the day after Xmas.

I am very excited about the poems I’m working on for my second book, and this is the first one of them to see the light of print. Others so far are forthcoming from journals such as Salamander, The Southeast Review, and The Los Angeles Review and an anthology of literature about Southern Ohio edited by Neil Carpathios.