Author Archives: Christopher

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!

NANO Fiction

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I recently received my contributor copy of NANO Fiction Vol 5 No 1, and it’s a beauty, complete with the sexiest honey bees you’ve ever seen. This journal contains a ton of amazing flash fiction and prose poetry, all within a sleek, aesthetically pleasing trim volume. This journal really is a pleasure to read, not least because of its size, layout, font, and general look. If you’re interested, you can buy a copy here — but do not delay as their issues invariably sell out.

Spillway

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I recently received the happy news that Spillway will be publishing my poem “Turn Down the Thermostat, Darling” in their June 2012 issue which will have as its theme “Games People Play.” If you’d like to read some poems from this journal available online, check out CB Follett’s “The Green Pinecone” reprinted in Poetry Daily, and Anna Journey’s “Diagnosis: Birds in the Blood” reprinted in Verse Daily.

Superstition Review

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The wonderful folks at Superstition Review have accepted four of my poems for their upcoming issue! This amazing online journal from Arizona State University has been publishing two issues a year since 2007, and there’s an abundance of great poetry, fiction, nonfiction, interviews, and art on their site. Just a small sampling of the poetry includes the likes of Denise Duhamel, Dara Wier, Jim Daniels, Bob Hicok, Billy Collins, Alberto Rios, Floyd Skloot, Richard Jackson, Norman Dubie, Michael S. Harper, Sherman Alexie, & Dorianne Laux.

Arts & Letters PRIME

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The first issue of Arts & Letters PRIME was released this last November containing both the text and audio of me reading my two poems “Free Verse” and “You Can Always Buy a New Dress.” PRIME is a newly launched e-supplement to the print edition of this wonderful journal, specially made for the iPad/iPhone. If you have one of those, you can download the issue 1.1 here. If you don’t, never fear, that link also takes you to a place where you can download a basic version to be read on an e-pub reader.

In addition to my two poems, this issue features flash essays, including one by Dinty Moore, visual art, audio and video.