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  2010
SUN., JULY 25:
Poetry reading, 4:00 PM, Popsickle: A Festival of Literary Arts. With Dan Magers and Leigh Stein. The festival will take place at the Market Hotel, 957 Broadway, in Bushwick, Brooklyn. See the Popsickle Web site for a full schedule of readers.
  P U B L I C A T I O N S
2010
TBA:
"Fire Safety." Poetry.
DEC.:
"The Hill." Poetry Calendar 2011 (Alhambra Publishing).
AUG. 12:
"The Smokestack." The New Republic.
FEB.:
"The Hill," "The Crossroads," and "Here." Poetry.
JAN.:
"The Grand Hotel." A review of two new poetry collections. Poetry.
  2009
DEC.:
"The Polling Place." Poetry Calendar 2010 (Alhambra Publishing).
NOV.:
"A Bird at the Leather Mill." Bright Wings: An Illustrated Anthology of Poems about Birds (Columbia Univ. Press).
AUG.:
Poems in The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets (Swallow Press/Ohio Univ. Press). Click here to buy the anthology.
  G E R M A N   P U B L I C A T I O N S
(tr. Christophe Fricker)
  2010
SPRING:
"Retirement," "The Mayor," and "After a Nightmare." Krachkultur.
  2009
SUMMER:
"Retirement." Zeichen & Wunder.
2008
DEC.:
"The Pig Roast," "The Story of the Week," "The House Swap," "The Suicide," and "Introduction to Poetry." Akzente.
  P R E S S
2004–2009
  In Larkin Terminal: Von fremden Ländern und Menschen, a collection of personal essays by Christophe Fricker. Leipzig: Plöttner, 2009.
"Für Metrum und Blankvers!" by Christophe Fricker. Merkur: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Europäisches Denken (July 2007).
Poets’ Café. Radio Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM (Aug. 2005 and Jan. 2006).
"Finding the Verse in Adversity." by John Freeman Gill. The New York Times (17 Apr. 2005).
Ohio Univ. Press Book News. "Questions and Answers with Joshua Mehigan" (Dec. 2004).