Author Archives: Christopher

On the Cusp

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Today the mailman brought me my copy of On the Cusp no. 5 in which I have two poems, “She Rattles Dishes” and “Grasslands.” The theme of this issue is Hunt. You can purchase a copy for five bucks by going here. On the Cusp is a collaborative zine based in Chicago with elegance and beauty — the full color art in this issue is really wonderful, especially Clare Vernon’s exquisite photograph of a doe curled in the bed of a pickup truck. I hope it was only sleeping there. Their next issue’s theme is Who. Thanks Rachel, Clare & Wesley!

Southern Ohio Anthology

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Three of my poems have just been accepted for an upcoming anthology of southern Ohio literature edited by the poet Neil Carpathios. One of the poems is an older one written while driving down to my brother’s farm in Ohio and was published a few years ago in The Cincinnati Review. I had to pull off the highway to get the poem down on paper as it had started spontaneously flying out of my head while I was driving. The other two are brand new poems, from my second book-length manuscript, focusing around my time last year living in an apartment above Main Street in an Ohio village (pop. 800).

This is the first time my work has been included in an anthology. I am overjoyed, to say the least.

Audio & Video Podcasts from Superstition Review

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The wonderful folks at Superstition Review, who published four of my poems in Issue 9, have just podcasted audio of me reading the poems in my library, with the cat locked out so she wouldn’t keep meowing into the microphone, and video of me reading them in the wonderful weeds and brush behind our house and on the playground of a local elementary school. The video was shot on my girlfriend’s Android phone, so it’s lofi (a.k.a. blurry).

Thank you Superstition Review!

NANO Fiction’s State of Flash (& Prose Poetry): Why We Write ‘Em!

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This summer, for NANO Fiction’s blog series The State of Flash, I surveyed some of my writer friends about why they write prose poetry or flash fiction. The responses I got were thoughtful, funny, insightful, sometimes frightening, and even lyrical.

The short essay was featured online yesterday, and you can read it HERE.

Thanks Kirby Johnson & NANO Fiction!

“Our Apple Trees” published as a Thrush Press Broadside

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The broadside of my poem “Our Apple Trees” has just been published by Thrush Press. It’s available for $3.50 (S&H included).

To order a broadside, you just login to your own PayPal account, and send $3.50 to account: hvitoria@msn.com. Indicate which Broadside you are ordering with either name of poem(s) or poet(s), and the number of each desired, in the notes section on Paypal or in an email to hvitoria@msn.com.

Each broadside is handmade, stamped, and backed with art paper of different patterns. It’s a beautiful object and I’m proud to have my poem published in such a form. The poem itself is inspired by the old Amish farms in Ohio where my dad used to take me wild mushroom picking when I was a kid.

The above is a photograph of some of them which I just took in my backyard with the neighbor watching me, probably wondering why I was decorating an evergreen tree in August.

NANO Fiction’s State of Flash

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My article “State of Flash (and Prose Poetry): Why We Write ‘Em!” is going to be featured at NANO Fiction in September, and I’m so excited. For this, I called up a handfull of writer friends and asked them why in the world they write prose poems or flash fiction. The answers I got were wonderful. Also funny, insightful, sometimes frightening, and even lyrical.

Check out Adam Peterson’s “Bylaws of the State of Flash,” the most recent post in NF’s State of Flash series. You may not have known it, but in the State of Flash there are fifty bylaws. And they’re not to be sniffed at.