CHRIS

MCCREARY

A man with glasses, a beard, and a shaved head wearing a dark shirt with a purple small floral pattern, standing against a plain light gray background.

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.

Close-up of a book cover titled 'awry' by Chris McCreary, featuring intricate, colorful embroidered or beaded textile art on a black background.

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