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 Poetry Slam team in 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2023. Christopher is a five-time grand slam champion at the venue. He is the author of more than a dozen chapbooks, and his work has appeared in Plants and Poetry Journal, Sylvia, Bureau of Complaint, and New York Quarterly. He is a two-time finalist in the NPS haiku slam. His first full-length book of poetry, Photosynthesis and Respiration, is now available from Silver Bow Press.
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
An Erasure of Narnia in Which Mr. Beaver is a Villain and Almost Everybody Dies - 4th place in the Fantasy poetry slam
Selected Publication:
Survival and Variations of Useless Platitudes - forthcoming in Westview, 2024
The Chestnut Grain Beneath - Amarillo Bay, November 13, 2023
Back, Into the Murk - Forthcoming in La Presa and translated into Spanish
Away - Porcupine Literary Review, Jan 29, 2024
Almost Me - Changing of the Guard - On Buying Dead Things - Forthcoming in Open Skies Quarterly, 2023
Taco Bell Apostate - St. Katherine Review, Nov 27, 2023
Screw the Grenade - Forthcoming in deLuge Literary and Arts Journal, 2023
When We Knew No Other Way - Pennsylvania English, 2023
Regarding the Mast Year - Pigeon Pages, Oct 8, 2023
The Obvious Pencil - Right Hand Pointing, issue 151, 2023
Seldom a Grain of Salt and Never Sharp Enough - forthcoming in Main Street Rag, 2023
Delayed Gratification and I am That Meme - forthcoming in JAKE, 2023
Microplastics and Slush We Hardly See - forthcoming in Canary, 2023
It's Different Now (Teach Science) - Portside, July 7, 2023
Prayers Offered Afterward - Culture Cult, Spring Offensive 2023
Always Something Unpleasant to Do on Saturday - Euphony - May 15, 2023
It's Different Now: I Just Want to Teach Science - The Radical Teacher, Vol 125 - 2023
Sitting in Sympathies and Velocity of the Schoolyard - Neologism Poetry, March 2023
Mario - Princess Peach - Koopa - Freezeray #22, 2022
Tycho Brahe's Tagalongs - The F*ckening, p169, 2022
Prayer Love Ecology - Time of Singing, 2022
The First Sip - Talon Review Vol. 2 p53, 2022
Spontaneous Generation - Dead Fern Press 2022
The Largest Goldfish in the Smallest Bowl , Troglodytic Biota to Fritz Haber, Why the Dog Keeps Chewing My Socks- Clade Song 12
Water From Food -Taj Mahal Review, Vol 22 Issue 1
The Stories Never Told and Repair - VEXT Magazine
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
Freight Train Coming, another migraine poem - National headache Foundation, 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
There Be Dragons - Emanations 4, 2014
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, 2021
Fighting with Friends, A Visit With Old Friends - 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 - WINK #19, 2022
Slow Steep - Penumbra, Spring 2022
Like Jesus - The Open Arms
Reaching Out After Low Tide - The Wayne Review, page 46
Rise, Overrun - Bureau of Complaint
More than His Ache - The Poets' Touchstone iss 64.1
In Evora - American Diversity Report
Sestina for a Dredged-up Melody - Organs of Vision and Speech (OVS), Spring 2012
