Christina Seymour

Collections

• ​​When is a Burning Tree (Lyrebird Award Winner, Glass Lyre Press, 2018)

• Flowers Around Your Soft Throat (chapbook contest winner, Structo, 2016)

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Poems​

• A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia, University of Georgia Press: “Except as Bait.” (2024)

• Blood Tree Literature: "Life in Child's Pose"

• The Raleigh Review: "Dizzy as a Child" (2023)

• The Heartland Review: "Fervent Beast" and "Nothing like an End" (2019)

• Structo Magazine: "Winter, a Family Home That Isn't Mine" (2019)

• "Secular Special: Women's Voices," HitchLit Review: "Inferiority: An Underwater Dance of Lights," "Watercolor Fox, Patience," "all the salt swelling sea laughed aloud" (2017)

• The Moth: "New House: Brick with Lime Green Door" (2017)

• The Briar Cliff Review: "Stage-Struck" (2016)

• Arsenic Lobster: "Land of the Amber Sky" and "Live Flower Necklace" (Winter 2016)

• Cider Press Review: "Lack of Grace" (2015)

• Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program: "Story of Us" (2015)

• North American Review: "Channel Inn Balcony"  (2014)

• Cimarron Review: "Fight Song" and "I Learned to Stop Wanting" (2014)

• Structo Magazine: "Song of Loves" (2014 Lenten Psalm Contest Winner)

• Wingbeats II: Exercises and Practice in Poetry, Dos Gatos Press: "Being Here to be There," "Letter from my Grandfather," "Letter to my First Friend," "Weekend Jog," "Weekend Run," "Wonder and Restraint" (2014)

• New Haven Review: "Something That Stands Still" (June 2013)

• Connotation Press: "Chasing Ideal" and "Choosing the Body"  (2012)

• Third Wednesday: "It’s Just a Dark Hill" (2012)

• Backbone Mountain Review: "Said," "Stuffed Me" (2011)

• Wick Poetry Center's Speak Peace—American Voices Respond to Vietnamese Children’s Paintings: "Home Is Dead When He Fights"  (2010)

 

Essays

• Moveable Type: "Tones and Spaces in Emily Dickinson's 'Two things I have lost with Childhood--" (Issue 9, Spring 2022)

• Glassworks: "Times of Day with William Stafford" (Spring 2016)

  • Glassworks: The Looking Glass (Spring 2016)

• North American Review Blog: "Prosody and Being Equal to Life" (Aug. 2015)

 

Interviews

• "Christina Seymour." Speaking of Marvels. (March 2019)

• Hathaway, Bethany Joy. "Christina Seymour." Speaking of Marvels. (Fall 2016)

• Xin Tian, Koh. "Flowers Around Your Soft Throat: An Interview with Poet Christina Seymour." Ploughshares. (Fall 2016)

​Short Stories

• The Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle: "Contracting of a Womb and Long-Distance Goats" (2012)

• Three Rivers Review: "Pause and Circumstance" (2010)

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Awards

• East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame, 2021

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Nominations

• The Pushcart Prize, 2015, 2016, 2018

• AWP Intro Award, 2014

• Best New Poets, 2014

• Iron Horse Literary Review's Discovered Voices Award, 2013

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Workshops

• The Frost Place, Workshop with Vievee Francis.

• Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Workshop with Terrance Hayes, 2017

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