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Jack Christian

Jack Christian is the author of the poetry collections Domestic Yoga (2016, Groundhog Poetry Press) and Family System, which received the 2012 Colorado Prize.

Recent Work

Ode to Anxiety

Jack Christian

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Anxiety, you’re my friend and I welcome you. / Because I love the world and its uncertainty, / I love the world with you in it, / even when I…

The Pond

Jack Christian

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You skip enough stones the pond becomes a pile of stones. / // That’s the hovercraft we don’t see. / That’s the divine bannister. / / The…

Roseland

Jack Christian

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It’s raining, but Matt says, that isn’t rain. / You make tea with it or it gets to you. / It’s an antelope. In other converted basements / …

Another from the Live Creature Series

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There’s an account wherein a piano falls in on itself and a man inhabits a stoop, but calls it his tree. When I step up on him my appearance grows…

An Ape

Jack Christian

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I walk a dog-colored thought to the All Dog Chapel / of Lost Dog Souls / where I purchase a translucent retriever. / Though I gather he comes…

Let’s Collaborate

Jack Christian

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I was thinking maybe you’d write one for me / and give it to me and I could say it’s mine / and never tell anyone, but always / give you credit…

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Who died and made you

Jessica Fjeld

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I’m sorry that the pencil I gave you // to write out the list of how the day had wronged you / had a lead so soft it collapsed into the page / …

Another World

Seth Landman

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If I ever calm down for a moment,remind me about the terrible world.Many times I thought, oh, I can’t take it,I’m brokenhearted, and went home and…

Beside Myself

Brian Foley

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I saw Rich become a stranger and was thankful / I saw Haley sleep before travel and was thankful / I saw Elena sew the seams and was thankful / I…

Song 7583479

Jordan Stempleman

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for Joseph Bradshaw / There’s a quality, that means to be / an endorsement, that’s speaking for us. / It is not shallow. It continues because /…

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