Christopher Shipman

Poet

Greensboro, NC
North Carolina US
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Author's Bio

Christopher Shipman (he/him) lives on Eno, Sappony, & Shakori land in Greensboro, NC, where he teaches literature and creative writing at New Garden Friends School & plays drums in The Goodbye Horses. Recent work appears or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Iron Horse Literary Review, Fence, Pedestal, Poetry Magazine, Rattle (online), & elsewhere. His experimental play Metaphysique D’ Ephemera has been staged at four universities. Getting Away with Everything (Unlikely Books, 2021), in collaboration with Vincent Cellucci, is his most recent collection. More at www.cshipmanwriting.com

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Getting Away With Everything (Unlikely Books, 2021)
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Keats is Not the Problem (Lavender Ink, 2018)
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The Movie My Murderer Makes: Season II (Cupboard Pamphlet, 2018)
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Cat Poems: Wompus Tales and a Play of Despair (Kattywompus Press, 2015)
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A Ship on the Line (Unlikely Books, 2014)
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The T. Rex Parade (Lavender Ink, 2013)
Chapbooks:
The Movie My Murderer Makes (Cupboard Pamphlet, 2013)
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Super Poems (Kattywompus Press, 2012)
Prizes won: 

2015 Motion Poems Big Bridges Prize for "The Three-Year Crossing"

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Last update: Oct 23, 2022