End of American Magic

Christopher Locke was born in Laconia, New Hampshire in 1968. He received his MFA from Goddard College. His poems and prose have appeared in over 100 publications around the world, including The Literary Review, The Southeast Review, Connecticut Review, and Poetry. Chris has received several awards for his poetry, including the 2007 Dorothy Sargent Memorial Poetry Prize, and a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council. His previous two chapbooks of poems are Slipping Under Diamond Light, (2002), and How To Burn, (1995). Locke’s poems are impressive because they take us to places we don’t want to go and manage to bring us back both safely and all the better for it. -Ploughshares