Christopher Shipman (he/him) lives on Eno, Sappony, & Shakori land in Greensboro, NC, where he teaches literature & creative writing at New Garden Friends School & plays drums in the rock band The Goodbye Horses. His work appears or is forthcoming in Denver Quarterly, Fence, Iron Horse Literary Review, Laurel Review, New Orleans Review, North American Review, Poetry, Rattle, Salt Hill, the Southern Review, & many other publications. His experimental play Metaphysique D’ Ephemera has been staged at four universities. Shipman has been nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, was a finalist for the 2024 Courage to Write Grant from the de Groot Foundation, and was a 2015 winner of the Big Bridges Prize from Motion Poems. He is the author or coauthor of six books and four chapbooks including collaboration with Vincent Cellucci, Getting Away with Everything (Unlikely Books, 2021) More at www.cshipmanwriting.com
poetry made to edify
The mission of Brick Road Poetry Press is to publish and promote poetry that entertains, amuses, edifies, and surprises a wide audience of appreciative readers. We are not qualified to judge who deserves to be published, so we concentrate on publishing what we enjoy. Our preference is for poetry geared toward dramatizing the human experience in language rich with sensory image and metaphor, recognizing that poetry can be, at one and the same time, both familiar as the perspiration of daily labor and as outrageous as a carnival sideshow.