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 six-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 has competed in slam at the national level seven times, was a two-time finalist in the NPS haiku slam and winner of the 2024 Northbeast Regional Haiku Slam and 2024 Blackberry Peach Haiku Slam.  In 2024 he was selected to compete in prestigious Ill List Poetry Slam in Modesto.  His first full-length book of poetry, Photosynthesis and Respiration, is now available from Silver Bow Press.

Christopher is available for poetry features and poetry writing and performance workshops.

Videos:

• Purple Shirt - 2023 Northbeast Regional Slam - Button Poetry

• It's Different Now - 2023 Northbeast Regional Poetry Slam - Button Poetry

• 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 - La Presa and translated into Spanish, 2024

• 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 - JAKE, 2023

• Microplastics and Slush We Hardly See - 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 - 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

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