Christopher Locke spent the last year living in Guanajuato, Mexico and Kittery Point, Maine; talk about your culture shock. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in 32 Poems, Alimentum, Arc Poetry Magazine, Poetry East, Rattle, and many others. His first full-length collection of poems, End of American Magic, is currently available from Salmon Poetry. Waiting for Grace & Other Poems (Turning Point Books) and the memoir, Can I Say (Kattywompus Press) are both forthcoming in 2013. Visit him here.
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