BIo, & etc.
Me, a couple few years ago.
A little poetry playlist
"These Lacustrine Cities" by John Ashbery
"Song" & "The Satyr's Heart" by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
"I felt a Funeral in my Brain" by Emily Dickinson
"Leda, After the Swan" by Carl Phillips
"The Gate" by Marie Howe
"Homosexuality" by Henri Cole
"Amber Doll" by Ladan Osman
"Wreck" by Janine Joseph
"We Are Seven" by William Wordsworth
"Dinosaurs in the Hood" by Danez Smith
"Am Moor" by Lucie Brock-Broido
"First Kiss" by Kim Addonizio
"Vixen" by W.S. Merwin
"Litany In Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out" by Richard Siken
Caleb Curtiss is an educator, writer, and freelance editor. His poems, essays, criticism, and fiction have appeared in journals such as Passages North, Ninth Letter, Hobart, The Literary Review, American Short Fiction, New England Review, International Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Fugue, Hayden's Ferry Review, Redivider, and The Southern Review. He has served as a public school teacher, instructional coach, manuscript consultant, event director, and editor for a number of established literary, educational and arts organizations that include Champaign Unit 4 School District, University of Illinois Writing Project, Hobart, Ninth Letter, Barrelhouse, and The Pygmalion Festival. In 2013 he was a finalist for The Poetry Foundation's Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship. He has studied poetry at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the University of Illinois’ Creative Writing Program, and Vermont College of Fine Arts where he is an MFA candidate in poetry. He is from Champaign, Illinois and currently resides in Dublin, Ireland.
List of publications
“Swans as a Scourge,” “Cancer Field,” “Peripeteia in Goltzius’ Icarus”; Poetry
The Literary Review (2010)
“Dream”; Poetry
Weave (2011)
“Writers on Writing #11”; Essay
Passages North (web) (2011)
“Time Capsule”; Poetry
Redivider (2012)
“The Holding, The Explosion”; Fiction
Hobart (2012)
“Primer,” “Poem With You Drinking a Cup of Coffee”; Poetry
New England Review (2012)
“Love Poem”; Poetry
Hayden’s Ferry Review (2012)
“A Taxonomy of the Space Between Us”; Poetry
Pank (2012)
“Eileen”; Essay
Hayden’s Ferry Review (web) (2012)
“Bob”; Poetry
McNeese Review (2012) (Pushcart Nomination)
“Ghost,” “Cup & Saucer,” “Elegy”
Thrush (2013)
“Earth Bear”; Fiction
American Short Fiction (web) (2013)
“Sparrow”; Poetry
Tar River Poetry (2013)
“Ronnie’s Hallucinations”; Poetry
TriQuarterly (2013)
“Effigy”; Poetry
Diagram (2013)
“Triplets”; Fiction
Bull (2013)
“A Spell of Winter”; Essay
Ninth Letter (2014)
“Self-Portrait Without My Dead Sister”; Poetry
Gigantic Sequins (2014)
“Kool-Aid Man”; Poetry
Green Mountains Review (2014)
“Fencing Response”; Poetry
Pamplemousse (2014)
“Self-Portrait as a Photograph of My Father,” “Self-Portrait With My Dead Sister”;Poetry
Spork Press (2014)
“Moth”; Poetry
Passages North (2015)
“Gun Cotton”; Poetry
Quiddity (2015)
“Cleave”; Poetry
Oyez Review (2015)
“Abstracting the Abstracted: A Review of The Cartographer’s Inkby Okla Elliot”; Criticism
International Poetry Review (2015)
“Aubade”; Poetry
The Collagist (2017)
“A Bloomery”; Poetry
Fugue (2017)
“I am Whole, I am Whole”; Poetry
Hobart (2017)
“Host of Hosts”; Poetry
The Southern Review (Winter 2018)