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The Title Poem

Posted on March 13, 2020March 13, 2020 by ChristopherMcCurry

I’ve always loved the word apocalypse. Saying it engages most of the mouth. It ends with the tongue touching the teeth, the lips coming together and then being pushed open by the final p-sound. Like a kiss.  I nearly failed linguistics because I didn’t like the fussy nature of labeling sounds and movements of the…

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My Favorite Poem

Posted on February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 by ChristopherMcCurry

When he first looked at Open Burning, my brother asked me, “What’s your favorite poem?”  I lied. I told him I didn’t have a favorite poem in the book.  For the most part, I don’t lie. When I do, it’s usually to protect a little bit about myself I’d rather not share at the moment. …

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Ode to Holler Poet Series and Eric Scott Sutherland

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020 by ChristopherMcCurry

Poems and wings, occasionally a burger. Let’s be honest, occasionally a burger AND wings AND poems. Holler Poet Series found me when I’d just begun to transition from writing bad slam poems to the shorter personal poems I’d learned about in Dan Howell’s and Erik Reece’s poetry classes.  A piece by Tom Eblen for the…

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A Marriage Story

Posted on January 4, 2020January 5, 2020 by ChristopherMcCurry

The year Abra was born, the year I was finishing up my Masters in Secondary Education, and the year I started teaching, I applied to twelve creative writing graduate schools. I had just found out such schools existed the semester before grad school. I had written my first short story and poem, as an adult,…

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Top 10 Favorite Books of Poetry

Posted on December 26, 2019 by ChristopherMcCurry

Goodreads says I’ve read 157 books of poetry, but I’ve never ranked my top 10 books of poetry. More than likely, if you asked for poetry recommendations you received one of these books. I haven’t figured the exact order, yet. Porcupine of Mind, Katerina Stoykova  How I Became an Angry Woman, Bianca Bargo   Render //…

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My Friend Maggie

Posted on December 15, 2019 by ChristopherMcCurry

In many ways, the divorce, or the feelings I confronted during the divorce anyway, were similar to those I felt after break ups in middle school, or elementary school even. Shame, embarrassment, confusion, shaky self-esteem, and an awareness of people’s reactions to what you say and do that is nearly unrelenting.  Here’s a memorable break…

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The Story of a Book Cover

Posted on December 4, 2019December 4, 2019 by ChristopherMcCurry

This starts in a likely place, a library.  After school, on Wednesdays, I host a board game club at Lafayette in our school’s library. One of those Wednesdays, I purchased and brought a new game for the group to play. Modern Art asks players to bid on paintings by 5 contemporary artists; whoever makes the…

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Thanks to Accents Publishing

Posted on November 17, 2019 by ChristopherMcCurry

And, of course, Katerina Stoykova… Without them Open Burning wouldn’t exist. But also, in broader sense, the person I am today wouldn’t exist. Some years ago (I’m bad at timelines), I began working at Accents as an intern. My first project was working on Bigger Than They Appear: An Anthology of Very Short Poems. From…

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Open Burning: Writing About Divorce

Posted on October 25, 2019 by ChristopherMcCurry

Really the title of this post should be something like Open Burning: writing about divorce when you have the responsibility of raising a child with your ex and live two blocks away from one another and at some point you are going to want to date someone again who probably won’t want to deal with…

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by TS Eliot

Posted on June 8, 2019June 8, 2019 by ChristopherMcCurry

On Poetry Foundation

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