Christopher Kempf

Christopher Kempf is a Ph D student in English Literature at the University of Chicago and a former Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford.  A recipient of a 2015 Fellowship from the NEA, he has had work in Gulf Coast, Kenyon Review Online and The New Republic.  He received his MFA from Cornell.

On Association

It is an acknowledged truth that the dominant mode in contemporary poetry is the associative. A cursory glance through the nation’s top journals, or at its most prestigious first-book prizes or its most celebrated contemporary anthologies— at those points, that … Continue reading