CHRIS

MCCREARY

Photo by Ellen Erikson

Chris McCreary is the author of five previous poetry collections as well as the chapbook Maris McLamoureary’s Dictionnaire Infernal (Empty Set Press), co-authored with Mark Lamoureux. A high school English and creative writing teacher, Chris lives in South Philadelphia.

AWRY

Emerging from a post-pandemic netherworld, the poems in awry flit like half-remembered dreams streaming through our liminal devices. Listing between rupture & reconfiguration, these verses spin the threads of a web stitching diverse registers & reference points. Tarot cards & twenty-sided dice chart a course for a disoriented, Orphean talk show host. Staggering forth from his darkened soundstage, he searches for the perfect alchemical polymer of pop songs & corporate jargon to imbue midlife’s perilous journey with a synthesis of mythic significance.

solace our carnage

solace our carnage