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I’ve joined the Seneca Review crew!

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I’ve been brought on board the team at Seneca Review as an editorial assistant! As someone who has long loved the poetry and essays they publish, I’m over-the-moon to be a part of their team…the literary journal that NAMED the lyric review! Yippee! Since decomP magazinE changed hands in 2020, becoming an institutional journal with their own in-house editorial team, I have been on the lookout for a new opportunity to edit for a literary journal. I couldn’t be more delighted that it’s Seneca Review! Send us your awesome writing…and maybe I’ll be one of the people who gets to read it! 🙂

Goodbye old decomP!

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For the last seven years, it’s been my great pleasure to have served as an editor for decomP magazinE, for two as Assistant Poetry Editor and five as Poetry Editor. We published an amazing group of poets and writers. I was delighted to invite my friend Steve Castro on board to fill my position as Assistant Poetry Editor, and he brought his vision and hard work to make the journal’s poetry even more awesome. This January the Managing Editor decided to end decomP. That was a shock, and it made me sad. I had nothing to do with that decision. It was his to make. I see today that the journal has morphed into a new incarnation as the “in-house journal at The Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia.” As of now the old archives are still up and available online. I hope they will remain so. I have no idea who is in involved with it now, but I wish them well. I thank everyone who trusted us with their poems, everyone who took me up on my invitations to submit, and my fellow editors, especially Steve Castro. All hail what decomP was. I wish smooth seas to those who will now sail in her.

And some day soon, I hope to be on board with some other beautiful literary journal.

.Christopher.

Stone Canoe No. 13 Release Party!

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Last night’s release party for Stone Canoe no. 13 at The Downtown Writer’s Center was such a blast! What an honor and a delight to be the guest Poetry Editor for this issue! Thank you to everyone who sent in your poems for consideration and to the 25 poets whose work appears in the issue. It was such a joy to hear poetry readings by Laura Donnelly, Devon Branca, Genoa Wilson, and Jackie Craven (apologies for my blurry cell photos). Huge thanks to the diligent Assistant Editors Judy Carr, Cindy Ostuni, and Gloria Heffernan — your wise work has paid off in a beautiful issue and you should be proud. Thank you to Managing Editor Carol Biesemeyer for your many considerations. And thank you again to Phil Memmer for inviting me to be a part of this issue. Everyone should order a copy and chase the winter blues away with all the poems, fiction, nonfiction…there’s also a play, interviews with Alison Lurie and Edward Hower, a trove of visual art! Long live Stone Canoe!

January/February decomP Released!

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The January/February issue of decomP just hit the digital newsstands and even if I weren’t its poetry editor I’d feel like celebrating. Read and enjoy the winter warmth of so much literary goodness!
http://www.decompmagazine.com/

FLASH PROSE
Raymond Deej, J. R. Gerow, Robert Garner McBrearty, Robin Small

SHORT PROSE
Andrew Reichard

POETRY
Glen Armstrong, Bruce Bond, Abigail Goodhart, Amorak Huey, Benjamin Niespodziany, Jon Riccio, Dawn Tefft, mica yarrow woods

BOOK REVIEWS
A Review of Veterans Crisis Hotline by Jon Chopan, A Review of How Much Of What Falls Will Be Left When It Gets To The Ground? by Carolyn Guinzio, A Review of pungent dins concentric by Vanessa Couto Johnson, A Review of Ghostographs: An Album by Maria Romasco Moore

I’m the Guest Poetry Editor for Stone Canoe Issue 13!

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I’m delighted to share the news that I’ve been asked to be the guest poetry editor for the next issue of Stone Canoe. From now until July 8 we’ll be reading poetry for issue 13 to appear in 2019. I’m thrilled to join the team for the next issue and excited to read what you have to send us!

Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York, was founded at Syracuse University’s University College, and is now published by The YMCA’s Downtown Writers Center, at the Arts Branch of the YMCA of Greater Syracuse.

In order to be eligible to submit, you must have a first-person connection to Upstate New York, but the poems submitted can be about anything at all. The work does not need to involve New York State. For simplicity’s sake, we current define “Upstate” as that portion of the state which is outside of New York City and Long Island. Examples of qualifying connections include but are not limited to: being born here, even if you moved away later; going to college at an upstate school such as SUNY Binghamton, Ithaca College, Syracuse University, etc.; working in the area currently or at some point in the past.

Purchase copies of the most recent issues HERE.

Submit your work HERE!