Christopher Kondrich
@ChrisKondrich
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Poet. Next book: TREAD UPON (@CopperCanyonPrs, 2026). Poet-in-Residence: @UMDEnglish. @MacDowell1907 Fellow. Work in @yalereview, @parisreview, and @nybooks.
University Park, MD
Joined October 2010
I’m immensely excited to announce that my next book of poems, TREAD UPON, will be published by @CopperCanyonPrs. I’m honored to join so many of my poetry heroes (am pretty overwhelmed by this tbh) and so grateful to those who have supported me and my work along the way.
A warm Copper Canyon Press welcome to poet CHRISTOPHER KONDRICH (@ChrisKondrich)!: https://t.co/iHUjxP3naE We look forward to publishing Kondrich's new collection!
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"ProPublica and the Guardian’s analysis shows that extra greenhouse gases released in the next decade as a result of Trump’s policies are expected to lead to as many as 1.3 million more temperature-related deaths worldwide in the 80 years after 2035."
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Most of the people expected to suffer these temperature-related deaths live in poor countries in Africa and South Asia that are least prepared to cope with the increasing heat from climate change.
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Pre-order visionary poet & incredible human @jorie_graham's upcoming collection from @fsgbooks!
Here's where to order Killing Spree. Thank you @fsgbooks
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Yowza
I'm honored to have a poem in the latest issue of @Poetry_London. It's from a new manuscript I'm working on. I'm particularly excited about this one because it's my first time appearing in a magazine outside the US. Many thanks to @NiallCPoetry for choosing it.
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I'm honored to have a poem in the latest issue of @Poetry_London. It's from a new manuscript I'm working on. I'm particularly excited about this one because it's my first time appearing in a magazine outside the US. Many thanks to @NiallCPoetry for choosing it.
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I really enjoyed BEES, AND AFTER by John Liles and ALT-NATURE by Saretta Morgan! I'll be teaching a course on Anthropocene Poetics for @UMDEnglish next semester, and poems from these collections will be on the syllabus.
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Another astonishing new poem by @jorie_graham in the @LRB. "Demonstration" ...
Thank u to @LRB for yet another great issue.
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King demolished the East Wing of the WH ( offices of the First Lady & all “non political” programming) to build a NINETY THOUSAND FOOT BALLROOM. I hope some people on here still grasp the concept of “metaphor” & feel appropriate fear & grief. It’s a bad move. It’s a totally
I hate him with the fire of a billions suns.
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"In any given volume, the ratio of poems I find appealing to not is about the same as it would be in a good journal too. Reading through my stack of “BAP”s, I was struck by the randomness of it all." - Elisa Gabbert https://t.co/UVXP6VWTO8
nytimes.com
After four decades, the annual book series is drawing to a close. Our columnist looks at what it all meant.
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Thinking of students today & always: "Most adjuncts are only able to survive the hustle, and the unfortunate consequence is that students’ educational experience is also compromised. https://t.co/2LIX15rUaT
truthout.org
Roughly 70 percent of faculty are contingent. This exploitative hustle is driving dedicated teachers out of academia.
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Now available from wherever you get your books—recent poems, in translation, from 34 extraordinary poets living in Gaza (& 4 in the West Bank)—from @CopperCanyonPrs
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“As long as there is someone beneath us. As long as there is a face to greet our fist, we send it, the fist once sent to us, we pass it down without hesitation.” —from “Punches Down” by @ChrisKondrich, in EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS https://t.co/XA2baKAeKY
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I'm profoundly excited to have two poems in the new issue of @QuarterlyWest, guest edited by @xAdakia, called "Extreme Environments." And don't miss Tanck's excellent intro!
EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS, guest-edited by @xAdakia, is officially live! You can find it on our "Features" page, or right here: https://t.co/QIqS2NjO7Q
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Incredibly put, Morris! And it is indeed a haunted emptiness that Dominick's use of AI depicts. That said, I don't think it should've been made. Surely something utilizing archival footage/photography could harness and project the nightmarishness of Cave's incomparable song.
Happy 40th to Nick Cave's 'Tupelo', the greatest apocalyptic nightmare in the entire ragged bass-blaring history of song. I still don't like AI & its thalidomide hands, but Dominick's tribute video leans into the shimmering haunted emptiness of the tool... https://t.co/2HAUg56LD2
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Nothing to see here but rising CO2 levels:
nytimes.com
Closing Mauna Loa and three other U.S. sites that track greenhouse gases would disrupt a decades-long record of the planet’s changing atmosphere.
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A new poem in @SoInReview that interrogates the ways that fossil fuel corporations have used "we" and "us" to poison climate discourse & responsibility. I'm really proud of this one & hope it reaches far. Many thanks to the editors.
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Fanny Howe 1940 - 2025 I'm forever indebted to her poems & prose that revised my vision every time I saw through her singular eyes 💔
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ICYMI ...
A new poem in @TheAtlantic! Many thanks to Katherine Hu and Walt Hunter for their editorial stewardship. This poem will be included in TREAD UPON, forthcoming from @CopperCanyonPrs next year.
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A new poem in @TheAtlantic! Many thanks to Katherine Hu and Walt Hunter for their editorial stewardship. This poem will be included in TREAD UPON, forthcoming from @CopperCanyonPrs next year.
“The flag to my right is about 50 yards away, / we move toward it, in dashes / I pencil on the wall above your head, my hand / touching your hair, which tastes of salt.” Read “For Now,” a poem by Christopher Kondrich:
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Yes. Yes, it is. The emissions, water consumption, and resource extraction needed for A.I. makes using it reprehensible from a climate standpoint. We have to resist A.I. as much as we can! https://t.co/NdxPfOklW2
nytimes.com
Either way, let’s not be in denial about it.
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