Chris Childers
@ChrisChildersoO
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Author of The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse. Weekly translations at https://t.co/chxUKA67zt
Baltimore, MD
Joined October 2013
Today The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse turns 0! If you pre-ordered it from the UK, presumably it has shipped. If you want to read it on Kindle, presumably you can. If you want to order a signed copy from me, we can discuss that too.
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Honored to be included on this amazing shortlist! Congratulations to all.
Christopher Childers' The Penguin Book of Greek and Latin Lyric Verse, published by Penguin. @ChrisChildersoO @classicpenguins @PenguinUKBooks
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Crossing the Water with the Argonauts--@ChrisChildersoO on the @Poochigian translation & so much more: https://t.co/qNSPDqqQcd
#ClassicsTwitter @AntigoneJournal
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Featuring: •@andreiwhoblev in @readliberties on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s post-Gatsby work and life •@ChrisChildersoO on Propertius and St. Francis, both from Assisi Read now!
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@ChrisChildersoO with a delicious #Propertius appetizer as you await my big meal of a translation: https://t.co/mDVPF99jZL
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Here’s a picture of me and two winners of the Frost Farm Poetry prize. This year it was @ChrisChildersoO. @bbrodeurpoet won 2 years ago and this year he was my instructor in “Brief Lyric”. Both of these guys are crazy good poets and wonderful to chat with!
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I swear to God that I had attached the photos the first time! I need social media training 😂🤣😂 Anyway these are great! One chapbook @MayaVenters and one doorstop @ChrisChildersoO (BTW-happy bday, man). Stay tuned for today’s #SealeyChallenge coming up later…
#SealeyChallenge Day 15: @MayaVenters (Maya Clubine) and I am going to cheat a little with one whole book but it’s huge Days 16-19: @ChrisChildersoO (I got this book during the #FrostFarmConference and I was able to look through and read a bit not really cover to cover.)
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Spent the weekend in NH at the Frost Farm Poetry Conference. What a delightful weekend talking poetry with so many amazing poets, and meeting up with friends both new and old @alfred_nicol @MidgeGoldberg @amjuster @Zina_GomezLiss @SallyThomasNC @CarlaGaldoVA @StevenEKnepper
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#SealeyChallenge Day 15: @MayaVenters (Maya Clubine) and I am going to cheat a little with one whole book but it’s huge Days 16-19: @ChrisChildersoO (I got this book during the #FrostFarmConference and I was able to look through and read a bit not really cover to cover.)
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"Two Hymns to Apollo" by @ChrisChildersoO (whose megabook is out now in the US): https://t.co/UZmqeZZMkV
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Featuring: •@lijukic in @EngelsbergIdeas on two books about Europe’s last pagans • @victoriamoul on poetry on social media • @ChrisChildersoO on Dowson’s sources in Horace and Propertius for “Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae” • @tnyfrontrow in @NewYorker on reviews
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@ChrisChildersoO asks who is the most #Propertian of the #poets just as I start transferring my handwritten drafts of #Propertius Book 3.14-25 & 4: https://t.co/KAOWi5aqYV
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The July links round-up is now live at NVR—pastoral vs. bucolic, clodhopping Americans, the French sublime, and more. Featuring @Zina_GomezLiss @dacooperpoet @MG_Mangan0 @Poochigian @amjuster @claudiagary @AmitMajmudar @MarginaliaROB @TheHudsonReview @JMWSPT @victoriamoul
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Featuring: • @ChrisChildersoO on two collections in the pastoral tradition • @xlorentzen on some letters by David Foster Wallace Read now!
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"Bucolic vs. Pastoral" by @ChrisChildersoO:
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Fascinating article by @ChrisChildersoO on Pastoral vs Bucolic & a book in which God is "Boss." (Maurice Manning’s "Bucolics") https://t.co/aJBhBjHkP5
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@ChrisChildersoO on prosody: https://t.co/eTyIJ1cnPx
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"Hadrian's Little Soul"--@ChrisChildersoO on the untranslatable: https://t.co/XJAmQJ2uVn
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