the clinking of chains, ruins of cities, narrow gates opening toward the sea.

Christopher Warner’s poetry appears widely in the nation’s top literary journals and magazines, including West Branch, Gettysburg Review, Narrative, Blackbird, Image, Copper Nickel, River Styx, New South, Tupelo Quarterly, Christian Century, and many others. He lives in central Illinois with his family and is currently working on his first full-length collection.