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Christian Gullette

Christian Gullette’s debut poetry collection, Coachella Elegy, won the Trio House Press Trio Award and is forthcoming from Trio House in summer 2024. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, New England Review, The Yale Review, and the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day. Gullette serves as the editor in chief of The Cortland Review. He lives in San Francisco.

Poetry

Winter 2024

Quake

By Christian Gullette

The Kenyon Review · “Quake” by Christina Gullette He reclines on his elbows beside the pool, says they should abolish the filibuster. Fatigue, he says. This is what they want. […]

Nature’s Nature 2020

May/June 2020

Giant’s Chair

By Christian Gullette

Utö Island, Swedish Archipelago Worn into the sea rock, you recline into mossy arms, toes in brackish tide. A giant rested here, his vast sunburned hands. I’ve been difficult to […]

Poetry

Winter 2024

California Spring

By Christian Gullette

The Kenyon Review · “California Spring” by Christian Gullette We once lived on one side of Sutro Tower under its radio waves, facing the bay. Now we live on the […]