September 13, 2019

Christopher McCurry | @m_c_c_u_r_r_y

Text: Let me be punk enough / to love the leash.

m_c_c_u_r_r_y Small poems.

from Rattle #64, Summer 2019
Tribute to Instagram Poets

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Christopher McCurry: “I’ve only toyed around with Instagram. I ended up not using it much because my students follow me, and I don’t want to worry about what I post there. Stops the creativity for me. The immediate audience and ability to link to other content is seductive. We know how much time people spend on their phones, so why not put some poems in front of them. I wasn’t going to submit until reading Erik Campbell’s essay. Then I felt it was necessary. Poetry can grow, adapt as our technology does. I believe that.” (web)

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April 6, 2015

Christopher McCurry

THE MAN WHO WAS THURSDAY

after G.K. Chesterton

fell in love
with a girl
who was Saturday.

She fell in love
with his falling
in love with her

Saturday boobs and her
Saturday laugh and her
Saturday way of not caring

that he was Thursday
because she liked
for the moment

his Thursday glasses and
his Thursday bedtime and
his Thursday-sized salary

that he spent on her
until she almost loved
Thursdays. That and

he was so nearly Friday
that sometimes she would
forget that he would never

have cocky certainty
or casual wear
or pizza nights,

and sometimes he would
forget, too, and they
were happiest then.

from Rattle #46, Winter 2014

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Christopher McCurry: “I write poems because a high school English teacher in Bourbon County, Kentucky, believed I could, and now I want my students to believe that they can write them, too. Actually, I want everyone to believe that.” (website)

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