Christopher Bakken
Poet and nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in Best American Poetry, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, etc. Director of Writing Workshops in Greece: Thessaloniki & Thasos. DRIVING THE BEAST (poems) forthcoming from LSUP in 2025.
- Happy to see mention of the sublime Amanda Michalopoulou, though it is a pity the author does not seem to be aware of the work of Natalie Bakopoulos, an exception to so much being glossed here. lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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- Lord Dampnut & VJ Dance: "bow and kiss our boots and grovel or we won't play." No truth. No sense of history. Just rambling bullshit and bowing to the real Oz in the room: Putin. Disgrace. Shame. American idiocy.
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- Apply now to write with us on Thasos this summer. Early app deadline is 2/15. Workshops and residencies. A Roman marble quarry. Three beaches. Island cuisine. Literary hootenanny. Www.writingworkshopsingreece.com
- Theology of Flight at The Common. www.thecommononline.org/theology-of-... "One bullet. Even a rumor of bullet/ restless in the chamber of a neighbor's gun..."
- Now reading applications for our summer writing workshops on the Greek island of Thasos www.writingworkshopsingreece.com
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- Reposted by Christopher Bakken“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin
- Spooky stuff from Orion magazine #orionmagazine orionmagazine.org/product/unna...
- Gorgona "Fall back into me now, little ghost/ Let go of the shore." www.juxtaprosemagazine.org/gorgona-by-c...
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- Happy to have a new poem "On the Way to Panormo" in the new issue of The Sewanee Review thesewaneereview.com
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- RIP Sandra Gilbert. Reading The Madwoman in the Attic (1979) was so crucial to my experience as a college student at UW Madison a decade after it was published. www.sunsetviewcemetery.com/obituary/san...
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- No narrative arc, but it is a book (DRIVING THE BEAST, forthcoming Louisiana State Univ Press 2025). The first reviewer was feline, and thus entirely inscrutable.
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- The Trump kakistocracy is taking shape: these new appointments constitute a murder of boot-lickers and absurdly unqualified jackasses
- My poem "For the Dead Union" went live at Plume poetry on Nov 1: "I had the initial idea for this poem many years ago, when one of my students submitted an essay in which they mistakenly referred to the title of Robert Lowell’s famous poem as “For the Dead Union.” plumepoetry.com/29573-2/
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