CHRISTOPHER BAKKEN
Poetry
“Driving the Beast” at Academy of American Poets (poets.org)
“Lesvos” at Academy of American Poets (poets.org)
“Invocation” at The Los Angeles Review
“Theology at Black Earth Creek” at Birmingham Poetry Review (2020 Collins Prize)
“Exile in a Thrift Store Landscape” at Blackbird
“Turning Fifty at the Oracle of Death” at The Hopkins Review
“Days of 1993” & “Sunday Morning” at Cortland Review
“Days of 2015” at Michigan Quarterly Review
“Translation” in Greek (trans. Joanna Eleftheriou): «Μετάφραση» at Diastixo
“Denial” at The Literary Review
“A Poem Not Written by Yannis Ritsos on the Day of my Birth” at The Iowa Review
“Confession” at The Missouri Review
Eight Poems in Mediterranean Poetry
“Ariadne (Postscript)” on Verse Daily
Nonfiction
The City and the Writer: In Thessaloniki with Christopher Bakken
On Cavafy, Nostalgia, and Greek Summer at In+Sights Greece
“At the Wall with Titos” in Parnassus: Poetry in Review
Excerpt from “Goats in the Ghost Towns of Chios” in Parnassus: Poetry in Review
Reviews
Review of James Angelos, The Full Catastrophe in Wall Street Journal
Review of Julia Angus, Olive Odyssey, in Wall Street Journal
“Czeslaw Milosz, an American” in Contemporary Poetry Review
“Robert Lowell in Fourteen Lines” in Contemporary Poetry Review
“The Plains Pastoral of B.H. Fairchild” in Contemporary Poetry Review
Video
“Confessions of a 21st Century Philhellene: Writing Under the Influence of Patrick Leigh Fermor.” University of Copenhagen (January, 2018)
“Taking Stock and Talking Back.” Hellenic Authors’ Society Symposium. Athens, Greece (October, 2018). 9’20-24’30.
“Case Studies in Subversive Eating: From Greece to the Garage” at Franklin & Marshall College (February, 2015)
Poetry Reading. University of Dubuque (September, 2013)
Translations and Works in Translation
Greek
“The Message” by Titos Patrikios in Gulf Coast
“Night in the Tent” by Titos Patrikios in Prairie Schooner
Seven Poems by Titos Patrikios in Mediterranean Poetry
Romanian
“Domestic Circus” by Claudiu Komartin in Poetry International
“Five Days” by Claudiu Komartin in Poetry International
Interviews
Diastixo: Interviewed by Marion Horeanhti (in Greek)
Food Riot/Huffington Post: Interviewed by Amanda Nelson
The Vale of Soul Making: Interviewed by Amy Muse
Taste Trekkers Podcast: “Travel Writing in Greece”
On Honey, Olives, Octopus, Interviewed by Ines Bellina at Gapers Block
On “Drunk” at How a Poem Happens
Food Writing, Features & Recipes
“Three Afternoons of Dining in Greece: Heraklion, Volos, Thessaloniki” at Taste Trekkers
Greek Island Lamb Burgers with Grilled Feta: Food & Wine Magazine
Chef on a Shoestring Winner: CBS News
“Dinner with Mollie Katzen”: Elaina Mercatoris in The Campus
Christopher Bakken 