Poet Website for Christopher Clauss
Christopher is a New Hampshire science teacher, dad, poet and organizer. He was a member of the Slam Free or Die National Poetry Slam team in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, an d 2018. He was four-time grand slam champion at the venue. He is the author of more than a dozen chapbooks, and his work has appeared in OVS, Silkworm, and the Recipes for the Revolution anthology from Pizza Pi Press. He is a two-time finalist in the NPS haiku slam. A book of teaching poems, Parents Hate the Science Fair, is in the works.
Videos:
Teach Science - 2018 National Poetry Slam, Chicago
Purple Shirt - Slam Free or Die, Manchester, NH 2018
Resistance Chicken - WAN Poetry - at 2017 National Poetry Slam, Denver
Growing on Stone - New England College, 2016
Hacer Punto (To Knit) - New England College, 2018
ABC - performed at the 2012 National Poetry Slam in Charlotte, NC
Forgiveness - performed at Slam Free Or Die feature Jan 19, 2014
Hacer Punto (To Knit) - performed at New England College, summer 2016
Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary Love - published in Gingerbread Ritual
Selected Publication:
Resistance Chicken for Infighting on the Front Lines - Recipes for the Revolution by Pizza Pi Press
Fruit and Upper Room - Bombfire Lit,
The Long Exhale - Global Poemic
Purple Shirt (audio) - IndieFeed Show #1592
If You Can Overlay the Golden Ratio On That Meme of Bernie Sanders in his Mittens I Bet You Could Do It With Everything - Second Chance Lit
Love in the Time of COVID-19 - COVID Spring anthology #2
What We Wished For - Up! Magazine, Aug 2021
The Family Next-door to the Joneses - New York Quarterly - issue 67.3
Grown Men and their Toys - Big City Lit
Closing Up and Close Talker - The Wild Word
Cetaceans in Spacetime - Loud Coffee Press
Whelmed - Oddball Magazine
Warm Welcome Home - Young Ravens Literary Review, p15
Love in the Time of Covid 19 - Hobblebush Books COVID Spring II Anthology
Almost Me, Changing of the Guard, and On Buying Dead Things - Open Skies Quarterly Vol 6
Leaving Good Friends, Fighting with Friends, A Visit With Old Friends - forthcoming in Gertrude's Writing Room Community Writing Anthology
Atmospheric Pressure - Uproar Literary Blog
Digging a Tree - Stripes Issue 2: Vol 1 {Nowhere Near Home}
The Price of an Olive Branch, Bezalel and Oholiab, and Sancho Panza Apologizes to the Windmill - Smoky Quartz, Fall 2021
Kiddo's Super-purse - Last Leaves, Issue 3 p171
Some Kind of Response and The Subtlety of Mass Movement - Book of Matches issue 4
What the Water Didn't Look Like - Plants & Poetry Journal, Wildlife of the Underworld issue
The House We Build Together - forthcoming in South Broadway Ghost Society
Three Degrees Celsius and Falling - Sylvia
The Husk Finds Its Own Blood Again - forthcoming in WINK
Slow Steep, forthcoming in Penumbra
Like Jesus, forthcoming in The Open Arms
Reaching Out After Low Tide forthcoming in The Wayne Review
Rise, Overrun forthcoming in Bureau of Complaint
