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FRI., SEPT. 10:
Bach at One: A program of cantatas with interludes of poetry. This week's programs commemorates the tenth anniversary of September 11, 2001. 1:00 PM, St. Paul's Chapel of Trinity Wall Street, Broadway between Fulton and Vesey. Music by J.S. Bach, Trinity Choir, and Trinity Baroque Orchestra.
  P O E M S   F E A T U R E D
2011
JULY–AUG.:
"I Thought You Were a Poet." A Notebook essay on poetry and madness. Poetry.
JAN.–APR.:
"Here" and "The Hill." Poetry Out Loud: National Recitation Contest. Poetry Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts.
JAN. 14:
"The Story of the Week." The Writer's Almanac.
  2010
DEC.:
"The Hill." Poetry Calendar 2011 (Alhambra Publishing).
NOV.:
"Fire Safety." Poetry.
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.
  P R E S S
2004–2010
  "Hometown Poet Earns NEA Fellowship," by Bill Ackerbauer. The Leader-Herald (7 Dec. 2010).
  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).