christopher phelps
Poetry
I ask myself, how did I get here?
By now it's now (wholly parataxis).
Steps back . . .
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In 2008 I began submitting manuscripts to literary journals. The following is a list of poems so far published or forthcoming:
"This Is Yours," (mp3) my first published poem, appeared in the Spring 2009 issue of FIELD.
"Word" (mp3) appears in the first issue of Artifice.
"Forget Yourselves" (mp3) appears in the March 11, 2010 issue of The New Republic.
"Pigeonholes" (mp3) appears in the Spring 2010 issue of Tar River Poetry.
"Gadhya" (mp3) and "Virginia" (mp3) appear in the Spring 2010 issue of Cimarron Review.
"Trick" (mp3) appears in the September-October 2010 issue of The Gay & Lesbian Review.
"An Ouroboros" (mp3) appears in the October 2010 online issue of PANK, and in the print PANK #5.
"Five Ripe Eyes" (mp3) appears in the January 2011 issue of Meridian.
"Morning Exercises" (mp3) appears in LEVELER.
"In the Space Below" (mp3) and "Unified Field" (mp3) appear in the Spring 2011 issue of CUTTHROAT.
"I Am A Natural Wonder" (mp3) appears in the ongoing collaboration I Am A Natural Wonder.
"Flow (Go)" (mp3) and "Jamais Vu" (mp3) appear in The Awl.
"Back-burning" and "Godfly" (video) appear in Collective Brightness: LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion and Spirituality.
Eight aphorisms appear on All Aphorisms, All the Time.
"Allogamy" and "Toward a Theory of Endurance" appear in Softblow.
"In Fluorescence" appears in Volume XI of Lumina.
"By 1930" appears in Volume 6 of Interrobang?!.
"Embodiment" and "Nursing Home" appear in the Fall 2012 edition of KROnline.
"Embodiment (2)" appears in the July-August 2012 issue of The Gay and Lesbian Review.
"Cledonomancy" appears in the Summer/Fall 2012 issue of Washington Square.
"Stars by Other Means" appears in the Fall 2012 issue of The Kenyon Review.
"Green Flowers" appears in the Fall/Winter 2012 issue of WSQ.
"A Piece of Dream" appears in the first issue of Pacifica Literary Review.
"A Theory of Florida" appears in The Bakery.
"[This is an epigraph, a writing-on]" appears in Artifice 5.
"Labor of Love" appears in the Spring 2013 issue of Cimarron Review.
"Bougainvillea" and "To an Orphaned Girl" appear in the Spring 2013 issue of Iron Horse Literary Review.
"Mound" appears in the July/August 2013 issue of Boston Review.
"Shots in the Dark," "Paradise," and "Tunnel Visionary" appear in the July-August 2013 issue of Ragazine.
Alone in a Closed System, a cycle of nine poems, appears in Assaracus 12.
"Token Failure" appears in Bearers of Distance.
"Bonfire" appears in Issue 13 of Amazon's Day One.
"A Mobius I" and "Monolith" appear in the Fall & Winter 2013-2014 issue of Poetry Northwest.
"Reside Desire" appears in the Spring 2014 issue of Colorado Review.
"Night Singing," "Oodles," and "Anethersky" appear in Danse Macabre 78.
"The Middle Distance" appears in the September-October 2014 issue of The Gay & Lesbian Review.
"Love Learned Not to Speak" appears in the first volume of SHIFT Magazine.
"Frayed Dirge" appears in the 2016 issue of RHINO.
"Skin and Hide" and "Undertaking" appear in the Spring 2016 'Mirrors and Prisms' issue of Nimrod.
"First Year: Arithmetic" appears in Snakeskin 237: Maths and Numbers.
"The Roots of Twisted Words" appears in the first issue of Infinite Rust.
"Among Regrets" appears in Issue 9 of Madcap Review.
"Actuarially" appears in the Winter 2019 issue of Remington Review.
"Demagogue" and "Sound Belies" appear in the Spring 2019 issue of Beloit Poetry Journal.
"Hard Light" appears in filling Station issue 71—my first poem published outside the US.
"One Insomnia" appears in issue nine of American Chordata.
"In Latin, Foris" appears in the Ursula K. LeGuin tribute anthology, Climbing Lightly Through Forests.
"A Talisman" appears in the January 2020 issue of Poetry.
"Apocryphal" appears in The Nation.
"Not News" appears in Palette Poetry.
"Little Earth" appears in Zoeglossia.
recently published poems:
"Through Kissed or Barreled Wind" appears in The Night Heron Barks.
"Afterimage" appears in Anti-Heroin Chic.
"Just Like That," "Broken / Free," and "Lucky Day" appear in the January 2024 issue of Broken Lens.
"Puddle" appears in Boats Against the Current.
"The Little Fluke" appears in Discretionary Love.
"Note to Selves" appears in the August 2024 issue of Jelly Bucket.
"Potted Garden" and "Time Ticks Toward the End of the World" appear in Does It Have Pockets.
forthcoming poems:
"Wonder Has No Opposite" will appear in The Courtship of Winds.
"Glossarial" and "Ode for an Extra Day" will appear in The Blue Mountain Review.
"Piezoelectricity" and "Patch" will appear in failbetter.
"Afterthought" and "Failsafe" will appear in issue 3 of Queerly.
- Here are three interviews I've done: Artifice, Pank, Kenyon Review.
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In March of 2017 I gave a reading at Ringling College.
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Audio: of two poems & two more poems
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& two more poems & three more poems
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& two more poems & three more poems
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& two more poems & two more poems
& one more poem & the same poem
& a signal
& a passage from George Albon's Lyric Multiples
& two poems from a new possibly self-deconstructing series
& two poems from a new shelter
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